Novel gene expression mechanism in a fission yeast retroelement: Tf1 proteins are derived from a single primary translation product.

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Published in EMBO J on December 01, 1993

Authors

H L Levin1, D C Weaver, J D Boeke

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1: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.

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