Interruption of perfect CAG repeats by CAA triplets improves the stability of glutamine-encoding repeat sequences

BioTechniques

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 976-978

  Dorsman, Josephine C ^a   Bremmer Bout, M ^a   Pepers, B ^a   Van Ommen, G J B ^a   Den Dunnen, J T ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; GLUTAMINE; GUANINE; RNA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINANT DNA; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SYNTHESIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GLUTAMINE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0036839999     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/02335bm01     Document Type: Article

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