Enigmatic distribution, evolution, and function of Inteins

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 14490-14497

  Novikova, Olga ^a   Topilina, Natalya ^a   Belfort, Marlene ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; PROTEINS; VIRUSES;

GENETIC ELEMENTS; HOST PROTEINS; INTEINS; INTRINSIC FEATURES; PROTEIN-SPLICING; SELF-SPLICING;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

INTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONDITIONAL PROTEIN SPLICING; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW;

BIOINFORMATICS; CONDITIONAL SPLICING; DNA ENZYMES; INTEIN GAIN AND LOSS; INTEIN LOCALIZATION; INVASION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN SPLICING; SPLICING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; INTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN SPLICING; PROTEINS;

EID: 84901468696     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.R114.548255     Document Type: Review

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