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Traceless protein splicing utilizing evolved split inteins.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 Jul 2009
Lockless Steve W, Muir Tom W
Abstract excerpt
Split inteins are parasitic genetic elements frequently found inserted into reading frames of essential proteins. Their association and excision restore host protein function through a protein self-splicing reaction. They have gained an increasingly important role in the chemical modification of proteins to create cyclical, segmentally labeled, and fluorescently tagged proteins. Ideally, inteins would seamlessly...
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