The promiscuity of heterospecific lox sites increases dramatically in the presence of palindromic DNA

Gene

Volumn 296, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 129-137

  Mlynárová, Ludmila ^a,b   Libantová, Jana ^a,b   Vrba, Lukaš ^a,c   Nap, Jan Peter ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

(Il)legitimate recombination; Cre recombinase; Double lox methods; Inverted repeat; LoxP

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; PALINDROMIC DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; INTEGRASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DUPLICATE GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PLASMID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTEGRASES; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0037151780     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(02)00841-7     Document Type: Article

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