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Selfish DNA: the best defense is a good offense.

D R Edgell1, N M Fast, W F Doolittle.   

Abstract

The recent discovery of novel biochemical activities of intron-encoded endonucleases emphasizes the selfish nature of mobile genetic elements.

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Year:  1996        PMID： 8723339     DOI： 10.1016/s0960-9822(02)00502-x

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Curr Biol        ISSN： 0960-9822            Impact factor:   10.834


  4 in total

1.  Unexpected abundance of self-splicing introns in the genome of bacteriophage Twort: introns in multiple genes, a single gene with three introns, and exon skipping by group I ribozymes.

Authors:  M Landthaler; D A Shub
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  1999-06-08       Impact factor: 11.205

Review 2.  Transposases are the most abundant, most ubiquitous genes in nature.

Authors:  Ramy K Aziz; Mya Breitbart; Robert A Edwards
Journal:  Nucleic Acids Res       Date:  2010-03-09       Impact factor: 16.971

3.  Home and away- the evolutionary dynamics of homing endonucleases.

Authors:  Adi Barzel; Uri Obolski; Johann Peter Gogarten; Martin Kupiec; Lilach Hadany
Journal:  BMC Evol Biol       Date:  2011-11-04       Impact factor: 3.260

4.  Inteins, introns, and homing endonucleases: recent revelations about the life cycle of parasitic genetic elements.

Authors:  J Peter Gogarten; Elena Hilario
Journal:  BMC Evol Biol       Date:  2006-11-13       Impact factor: 3.260
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