Craig, Nancy Lynn
[Verfasser:in]
;
Chandler, Michael
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Gellert, Martin
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
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Beschreibung:
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contribution -- Preface -- I: Introduction -- 1. A Moveable Feast: An Introduction to Mobile DNA -- INTRODUCTION -- TARGETED DNA BREAKS LEAD TO GENE REPLACEMENT -- DNA Double Strand Breaks Stimulate Homology-Dependent DNA Repair -- There's No Place Like Home: Homing Endonucleases -- Alternative Life Styles: Switching Mating Type in -- Taking Evasive Action: Changing Cell Surface Proteins to Elude the Host Immune Defense -- LESS IS MORE: ACTIVE GENE ASSEMBLY BY DELETION -- The Immune System Strikes Back: Immunoglobulin Gene Diversification Allows Detection of Millions of Antigens -- Massive Chromosome Destruction Leads to Active Ciliate Genes -- TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS -- DNA-ONLY TRANSPOSONS -- Double Strand DNA Transposons Move via DDE Transposases -- Single Strand DNA Transposons Move via Tyrosine-HUH Transposases -- Tyrsosineand Serine-transposases: From Conservative to Libertarian -- RETROTRANSPOSONS: DNA→RNA→DNA -- Retroviruses and Retroviral-like Retrotransposons -- Non-LTR Retrotransposons -- Mobile Group II Introns: Back to the Future -- are Another Class of Retroelement -- DOMESTICATED REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASES -- Bacterial Reverse Transcriptases -- Domesticated Reverse Transcriptases in Eukaryotes -- PERSPECTIVE: "ALLTHAT WE KNOW IS STILL INFINITELY LESS THAN ALL THAT REMAINS" -- References -- II: Conservative Site-Specific Recombination -- 2. An Overview of Tyrosine Site-specific Recombination: From an Flp Perspective -- INTRODUCTION -- THE RECOMBINATION REACTION: SYNAPTIC ORGANIZATION OF DNA PARTNERS AND STRAND EXCHANGE MECHANISM -- INHIBITION OF TYROSINE RECOMBINATION BY AGENTS THAT TARGET HOLLIDAY JUNCTIONS -- SIMPLE AND COMPLEX YRs: CONTROLLING THE DIRECTIONALITY OF RECOMBINATION -- HALF-OF-THE-SITES ACTIVITY OF THE YR ACTIVE SITE.