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Home and away- the evolutionary dynamics of homing endonucleases.
BMC evolutionary biology - 4 Nov 2011
Barzel Adi, Obolski Uri, Gogarten Johann Peter, Kupiec Martin, Hadany Lilach
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BACKGROUND: Homing endonucleases (HEases) are a large and diverse group of site-specific DNAases. They reside within self-splicing introns and inteins, and promote their horizontal dissemination. In recent years, HEases have been the focus of extensive research due to their promising potential use in gene targeting procedures for the treatment of genetic diseases and for the genetic engineering of crop, animal...
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