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SUBMITTER: Johnson MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2206692 | biostudies-other | 2007 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Johnson Margaret A MA Southworth Maurice W MW Herrmann Torsten T Brace Lear L Perler Francine B FB Wüthrich Kurt K
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society 20070701 7
Certain proteins of unicellular organisms are translated as precursor polypeptides containing inteins (intervening proteins), which are domains capable of performing protein splicing. These domains, in conjunction with a single residue following the intein, catalyze their own excision from the surrounding protein (extein) in a multistep reaction involving the cleavage of two intein-extein peptide bonds and the formation of a new peptide bond that ligates the two exteins to yield the mature prote ...[more]