Site-Specific DNA Recombinases as Instruments for Genomic Surgery

Advances in Genetics

Volumn 55, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-23

  Akopian, Aram ^a   Marshall Stark, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RECOMBINASE; TRANSPOSASE;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOMICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 33645896423     PISSN: 00652660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2660(05)55001-6     Document Type: Review

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