Mobile group II introns
Mobile group II introns
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United States: Annual Reviews, Inc
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United States: Annual Reviews, Inc
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Mobile group II introns, found in bacterial and organellar genomes, are both catalytic RNAs and retrotransposable elements. They use an extraordinary mobility mechanism in which the excised intron RNA reverse splices directly into a DNA target site and is then reverse transcribed by the intron-encoded protein. After DNA insertion, the introns remov...
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Mobile group II introns
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_67128400
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_67128400
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0066-4197
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1545-2948
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10.1146/annurev.genet.38.072902.091600
