Evolution of variants of yeast site-specific recombinase Flp that utilize native genomic sequences as recombination target sites

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 5259-5269

  Bolusani, Swetha ^a   Ma, Chien Hui ^b   Paek, Andrew ^b   Konieczka, Jay H ^b,c   Jayaram, Makkuni ^b   Voziyanov, Yuri ^a  

^a LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DNA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-10; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; YEASTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33750985092     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl548     Document Type: Article

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