Hyperactive mariner transposons are created by mutations that disrupt allosterism and increase the rate of transposon end synapsis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2637-2645

  Liu, Danxu ^a   Chalmers, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; TRANSPOSASE;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPOSON;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 84895779016     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1218     Document Type: Article

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