Overexpression of bacterial RecA protein stimulates homologous recombination in somatic mammalian cells

Mutation Research - DNA Repair

Volumn 459, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-71

  Shcherbakova, Olga G ^a   Lanzov, Vladislav A ^a   Ogawa, Hideyuki ^b   Filatov, Michael V ^a  

^a PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene targeting; Homologous recombination in somatic mammalian cells; RecA protein

Indexed keywords

RECA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOMATIC CELL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TERATOCARCINOMA;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; MICE; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; THIOGUANINE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 0033951981     PISSN: 09218777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8777(99)00059-2     Document Type: Article

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