RAG and HMGB1 Proteins: Purification and Biochemical Analysis of Recombination Signal Complexes

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 408, Issue , 2006, Pages 511-528

  Bergeron, Serge ^a   Anderson, Dirk K ^a   Swanson, Patrick C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; RAG1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; BACTERIUM; CELL SPECIFICITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EMBRYO; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP BOX DOMAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOID CELL; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HMGB1 PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33745186676     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(06)08032-3     Document Type: Review

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