Transposition: Mobile Introns Get into Line

Overview

Journal Curr Biol

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Biology

Date 1996 Jan 1

PMID 8805219

Citations 4

Authors

L A Grivell

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Abstract

Group II introns encode highly structured, frequently self-splicing RNAs; they are also mobile genetic elements. This mobility has been found to involve DNA-primed reverse transcription, with similarities to retrotransposition and telomere maintenance.

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