Crystal structure of GyrA intein from Mycobacterium xenopi reveals structural basis of protein splicing.
Klabunde, T., Sharma, S., Telenti, A., Jacobs Jr., W.R., Sacchettini, J.C.(1998) Nat.Struct.Mol.Biol. 5: 31-36
- PubMed: 9437427 
- PubMed Abstract: 
Several genes from prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes have been found to contain an in-frame open reading frame, which encodes for an internal protein (intein). Post-translationally, the internal polypeptide auto-splices and ligates the external sequen ...