Cre/loxP-mediated in vivo excision of large segments from yeast genome and their amplification based on the 2 μm plasmid-derived system

Gene

Volumn 223, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 67-76

  Yoon, Young Geol ^a   Pósfai, György ^b   Szybalski, Waclaw ^c   Kim, Sun Chang ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Homologous recombination; Large DNA fragments generateddirectly from a natural host; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Site specific recombination; Yeast chromosome III

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME 3; CONFERENCE PAPER; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOME, FUNGAL; INTEGRASES; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032570005     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00371-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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