DNA recombination with a heterospecific Cre homolog identified from comparison of the pac-c1 regions of P1-related phages

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 6086-6095

  Sauer, Brian ^a,b   McDermott, Jeffrey ^a  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CRE RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINASE; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE P1; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGE P1; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DNA; DNA PACKAGING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, VIRAL; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 11344273450     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh941     Document Type: Article

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