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Mobile introns: definition of terms and recommended nomenclature
B Dujon1, M Belfort, R A Butow
1Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Levures, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Gene
|October 15, 1989
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.