Nuclease Activity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mre11 Functions in Targeted Nucleotide Alteration

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 6216-6224

  Liu, Li ^a   Usher, Michael ^a,b   Hu, Yiling ^a   Kmiec, Eric B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENZYMES; FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; YEAST;

OLIGONUCLEOTIDES;

OLIGOMERS;

DNA; NUCLEASE; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MRE11 GENE; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; WILD TYPE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA, FUNGAL; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0142040834     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.6216-6224.2003     Document Type: Article

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