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intein-coding
segments inserted at
different positions. For
these and
other reasons,
inteins (or more properly, the gene
segments coding for
inteins)...
- most
inteins contain a
homing endonuclease or HEG
domain which is
capable of
finding a copy of the
parent gene that does not
include the
intein nucleotide...
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proteolysis and, more generally, in N–O acyl
exchange reactions such as
those of
inteins. When the
functional group attacking the
peptide bond is a thiol, hydroxyl...
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genes within introns, as
fusions with host proteins, or as self-splicing
inteins. They
catalyze the
hydrolysis of
genomic DNA
within the
cells that synthesize...
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manifest as a
result of
simultaneous mutations in
multiple genes.
Certain inteins have been
identified which splice only at
certain permissive temperatures...
- exon
shuffling - note that
although introns are
conceptually analogous to
inteins, they
apply to a
different molecule (RNA) and are
processed by RNA splicing...
-
Deproteination DNA-binding
protein Macromolecule Index of protein-related
articles Intein List of
proteins Proteopathy Proteopedia Protein sequence space Protein...
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Reaban ME,
Coetzee T,
Dalgaard JZ (July 1995). "Prokaryotic
introns and
inteins: a
panoply of form and function".
Journal of Bacteriology. 177 (14): 3897–903...
- easy:
generating conditional mutations by
using temperature-sensitive
inteins that
function within different temperature ranges". Genetics. 183 (1):...
- proteins, and caspases,
which engage in
proteolysis in the
apoptotic cycle.
Inteins often function with the help of a
catalytic cysteine.
These roles are typically...
