A cell-free system of Tn3 transposition and transposition immunity

Genes to Cells

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1007-1016

  Maekawa, Takafumi ^a,b   Yanagihara, Katsuhiko ^a   Ohtsubo, Eiichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA POLYMERASE; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 0030281753     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1996.d01-216.x     Document Type: Article

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