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Protein Splicing Activity of the Haloferax volcanii PolB-c Intein Is Sensitive to Homing Endonuclease Domain Mutations.
Biochemistry - 15 Sept 2020
Robinzon Shachar, Cawood Alexandra R, Ruiz Mercedes A, Gophna Uri, Altman-Price Neta, Mills Kenneth V
Abstract excerpt
Inteins are selfish genetic elements residing in open reading frames that can splice post-translationally, resulting in the ligation of an uninterrupted, functional protein. Like other inteins, the DNA polymerase B (PolB) intein of the halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcanii has an active homing endonuclease (HEN) domain, facilitating its horizontal transmission. Previous work has shown that the presence of the...
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