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Other names published for VDE: YDL184w-a, VDE1, YDL185W2, PI-SceI

VDE - Fungal Related Genes/Proteins (15)

ReferenceOther Genes Addressed
Barzel A, et al.  (2011) Native homing endonucleases can target conserved genes in humans and in animal models. Nucleic Acids Res 39(15):6646-59
Bakhrat A, et al.  (2006) Nuclear import of ho endonuclease utilizes two nuclear localization signals and four importins of the ribosomal import system. J Biol Chem 281(18):12218-26
Butler MI, et al.  (2006) The distribution and evolutionary history of the PRP8 intein. BMC Evol Biol 6():42
Butler MI, et al.  (2005) Two new fungal inteins. Yeast 22(6):493-501
Fabre E, et al.  (2005) Comparative genomics in hemiascomycete yeasts: evolution of sex, silencing, and subtelomeres. Mol Biol Evol 22(4):856-73
Koufopanou V and Burt A  (2005) Degeneration and domestication of a selfish gene in yeast: molecular evolution versus site-directed mutagenesis. Mol Biol Evol 22(7):1535-8
Bakhrat A, et al.  (2004) Homology modeling and mutational analysis of Ho endonuclease of yeast. Genetics 166(2):721-8
Posey KL, et al.  (2004) Evolution of divergent DNA recognition specificities in VDE homing endonucleases from two yeast species. Nucleic Acids Res 32(13):3947-56
Steuer S, et al.  (2004) Chimeras of the homing endonuclease PI-SceI and the homologous Candida tropicalis intein: a study to explore the possibility of exchanging DNA-binding modules to obtain highly specific endonucleases with altered specificity. Chembiochem 5(2):206-13
Okuda Y, et al.  (2003) Occurrence, horizontal transfer and degeneration of VDE intein family in Saccharomycete yeasts. Yeast 20(7):563-73
Koufopanou V, et al.  (2002) Adaptation for horizontal transfer in a homing endonuclease. Mol Biol Evol 19(3):239-46
Nahon E and Raveh D  (1998) Targeting a truncated Ho-endonuclease of yeast to novel DNA sites with foreign zinc fingers. Nucleic Acids Res 26(5):1233-9
Gimble FS and Wang J  (1996) Substrate recognition and induced DNA distortion by the PI-SceI endonuclease, an enzyme generated by protein splicing. J Mol Biol 263(2):163-80
Pietrokovski S  (1994) Conserved sequence features of inteins (protein introns) and their use in identifying new inteins and related proteins. Protein Sci 3(12):2340-50
Gimble FS and Thorner J  (1992) Homing of a DNA endonuclease gene by meiotic gene conversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature 357(6376):301-6