Mobile introns: definition of terms and recommended nomenclature |
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| Authors: | B Dujon M Belfort R A Butow C Jacq C Lemieux P S Perlman V M Vogt |
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| Affiliation: | Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Levures, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. |
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| Abstract: | A number of introns in mitochondrial, chloroplast, nuclear or prokaryotic genes have recently been shown to encode double-strand sequence-specific endonucleases. Such introns are mobile genetic elements that insert themselves at or near the cleaved sites. A uniform nomenclature to designate the molecular elements involved in the phenomenon of intron mobility is proposed. |
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