Mammalian artificial chromosome formation from circular alphoid input DNA does not require telomere repeats

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1623-1631

  Ebersole, Thomas A ^a   Ross, Andrew ^a   Clark, Elma ^a   McGill, Niolette ^a   Schindelhauer, Dirk ^a,b   Cooke, Howard ^a   Grimes, Brenda ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE CONSTRUCT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMALIAN ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0034235802     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/9.11.1623     Document Type: Article

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