MeSH Review:
Inteins
- Production of cyclic peptides and proteins in vivo. Scott, C.P., Abel-Santos, E., Wall, M., Wahnon, D.C., Benkovic, S.J. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1999)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis RecA intein possesses a novel ATP-dependent site-specific double-stranded DNA endonuclease activity. Guhan, N., Muniyappa, K. J. Biol. Chem. (2002)
- Crystal structure of a mini-intein reveals a conserved catalytic module involved in side chain cyclization of asparagine during protein splicing. Ding, Y., Xu, M.Q., Ghosh, I., Chen, X., Ferrandon, S., Lesage, G., Rao, Z. J. Biol. Chem. (2003)
- Distribution of split DnaE inteins in cyanobacteria. Caspi, J., Amitai, G., Belenkiy, O., Pietrokovski, S. Mol. Microbiol. (2003)
- Semisynthesis of cytotoxic proteins using a modified protein splicing element. Evans, T.C., Benner, J., Xu, M.Q. Protein Sci. (1998)
- Novel lipid modifications of secreted protein signals. Mann, R.K., Beachy, P.A. Annu. Rev. Biochem. (2004)
- An alternative protein splicing mechanism for inteins lacking an N-terminal nucleophile. Southworth, M.W., Benner, J., Perler, F.B. EMBO J. (2000)
- Protein splicing of the yeast TFP1 intervening protein sequence: a model for self-excision. Cooper, A.A., Chen, Y.J., Lindorfer, M.A., Stevens, T.H. EMBO J. (1993)
- Intein-mediated assembly of a functional beta-glucuronidase in transgenic plants. Yang, J., Fox, G.C., Henry-Smith, T.V. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2003)
- Autoproteolysis in nucleoporin biogenesis. Rosenblum, J.S., Blobel, G. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1999)
- The in vitro ligation of bacterially expressed proteins using an intein from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum. Evans, T.C., Benner, J., Xu, M.Q. J. Biol. Chem. (1999)
- Crystal structures of an intein from the split dnaE gene of Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 reveal the catalytic model without the penultimate histidine and the mechanism of zinc ion inhibition of protein splicing. Sun, P., Ye, S., Ferrandon, S., Evans, T.C., Xu, M.Q., Rao, Z. J. Mol. Biol. (2005)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis RecA intein, a LAGLIDADG homing endonuclease, displays Mn(2+) and DNA-dependent ATPase activity. Guhan, N., Muniyappa, K. Nucleic Acids Res. (2003)
- Introns and intein coding sequence in the ribonucleotide reductase genes of Bacillus subtilis temperate bacteriophage SPbeta. Lazarevic, V., Soldo, B., Düsterhöft, A., Hilbert, H., Mauël, C., Karamata, D. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1998)
- Protein splicing of inteins with atypical glutamine and aspartate C-terminal residues. Amitai, G., Dassa, B., Pietrokovski, S. J. Biol. Chem. (2004)
- Inteins of Thermococcus fumicolans DNA polymerase are endonucleases with distinct enzymatic behaviors. Saves, I., Ozanne, V., Dietrich, J., Masson, J.M. J. Biol. Chem. (2000)
- Split dnaE genes encoding multiple novel inteins in Trichodesmium erythraeum. Liu, X.Q., Yang, J. J. Biol. Chem. (2003)
- Conditional protein splicing: a new tool to control protein structure and function in vitro and in vivo. Mootz, H.D., Blum, E.S., Tyszkiewicz, A.B., Muir, T.W. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2003)
- A nuclear-encoded intein in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. Butler, M.I., Goodwin, T.J., Poulter, R.T. Yeast (2001)
- Crystal structure of GyrA intein from Mycobacterium xenopi reveals structural basis of protein splicing. Klabunde, T., Sharma, S., Telenti, A., Jacobs, W.R., Sacchettini, J.C. Nat. Struct. Biol. (1998)
- A proposed mechanism for the self-splicing of proteins. Clarke, N.D. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1994)
- Protein splicing in the absence of an intein penultimate histidine. Chen, L., Benner, J., Perler, F.B. J. Biol. Chem. (2000)
- Reversible inhibition of protein splicing by zinc ion. Mills, K.V., Paulus, H. J. Biol. Chem. (2001)
- Targeting a truncated Ho-endonuclease of yeast to novel DNA sites with foreign zinc fingers. Nahon, E., Raveh, D. Nucleic Acids Res. (1998)
- VDE-initiated intein homing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae proceeds in a meiotic recombination-like manner. Fukuda, T., Nogami, S., Ohya, Y. Genes Cells (2003)
- Two new fungal inteins. Butler, M.I., Goodwin, T.J., Poulter, R.T. Yeast (2005)
- Regulation of protein activity with small-molecule-controlled inteins. Skretas, G., Wood, D.W. Protein Sci. (2005)
- A novel form of the plasminogen activator inhibitor created by cysteine mutations extends its half-life: relevance to cancer and angiogenesis. Chorostowska-Wynimko, J., Swiercz, R., Skrzypczak-Jankun, E., Wojtowicz, A., Selman, S.H., Jankun, J. Mol. Cancer Ther. (2003)