Bacterial group i introns: Mobile RNA catalysts

Mobile DNA

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hausner, Georg ^a   Hafez, Mohamed ^b,c   Edgell, David R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c Suez University   (Egypt)

^d WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolution; Group I introns; Homing endonuclease genes; Intron mobility; Intron splicing; IStrons

Indexed keywords

DNA; ELEMENT; ENDONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RIBOZYME; RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ALLELE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; CATALYST; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 84905730149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17598753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1759-8753-5-8     Document Type: Review

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