Synthetic Junctions as Tools to Identify and Characterize Holliday Junction Resolvases

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 408, Issue , 2006, Pages 485-501

  Rass, Ulrich ^a   West, Stephen C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSOVER JUNCTION ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; SYNTHETIC DNA;

CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA, CRUCIFORM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION RESOLVASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33745203040     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(06)08030-X     Document Type: Review

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