Retrohoming of a Mobile Group II Intron in Human Cells Suggests How Eukaryotes Limit Group II Intron Proliferation.
Mobile bacterial group II introns are evolutionary ancestors of spliceosomal introns and retroelements in eukaryotes. They consist of an autocatalytic intron RNA (a "ribozyme") and an intron-encoded reverse transcriptase, which function together to promote intron integration into new DNA s...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-08-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4524724?pdf=render |