Activation of site-specific DNA integration in human cells by a single chain integration host factor

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 5140-5148

  Corona, Teresa ^d   Bao, Qiuye ^a   Christ, Nicole ^b   Schwartz, Thomas ^c   Li, Jinming ^a   Dröge, Peter ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; POLYPEPTIDE;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BETA CHAIN; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMAL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTEGRASES; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0344012228     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg711     Document Type: Article

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