Iterative in vivo assembly of large and complex transgenes by combining the activities of φC31 integrase and Cre recombinase

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2005, Pages

  Dafhnis Calas, Felix ^a   Xu, Zhengyao ^a   Haines, Steve ^a   Malla, Sunir K ^a   Smith, Margaret C M ^a,b   Brown, William R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; DNA BASE; GENOMIC DNA; INTEGRASE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BASE PAIRING; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SYNTHESIS; GENETIC CODE; IN VIVO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSGENICS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTEGRASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STREPTOMYCES; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSGENES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VERTEBRATA;

EID: 31144443605     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gni192     Document Type: Article

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