A new logic for DNA engineering using recombination in Escherichia coli

Nature Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 123-128

  Zhang, Youming ^a   Buchholz, Frank ^a   Muyrers, Joep P P ^a   Francis Stewart, A ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; EPISOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031664853     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/2417     Document Type: Review

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