A Domesticated PiggyBac Transposase Interacts with Heterochromatin and Catalyzes Reproducible DNA Elimination in Tetrahymena

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Vogt, Alexander ^a,b   Mochizuki, Kazufumi ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN TPB2P; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA ELIMINATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOSS; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA INTERFERENCE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRANSPOSON;

CYSTEINE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HETEROCHROMATIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE DELETION; TETRAHYMENA; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 84892701098     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004032     Document Type: Article

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