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Review
. 2000 Oct;182(19):5281-9.
doi: 10.1128/JB.182.19.5281-5289.2000.

Barriers to intron promiscuity in bacteria

D R Edgell  1 , M Belfort, D A Shub
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Review

Barriers to intron promiscuity in bacteria

D R Edgell et al. J Bacteriol. 2000 Oct.
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FIG. 1
FIG. 1
Schematic of group I and II intron homing pathways. Solid black lines represent upstream (E1) and downstream (E2) exons of donor (intron-containing) alleles, and blue-gray lines indicate recipient (intronless) alleles. Group I or II introns are depicted by red boxes. Broken red lines indicate intron RNA, while solid red lines indicate cDNA synthesized by the reverse transcriptase (RT) function of group II intron proteins. The gray tooth-shaped structure represents a group I intron endonuclease. Group II intron proteins possess two functions in addition to RT, namely, maturase (M) and endonuclease (E) activities.
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