Cryptic loxP sites in mammalian genomes: Genome-wide distribution and relevance for the efficiency of BAC/PAC recombineering techniques

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1402-1410

  Semprini, S ^a   Troup, T J ^a   Kotelevtseva, N ^a   King, K ^b   Davis, J R E ^c   Mullins, L J ^a   Chapman, K E ^a   Dunbar, D R ^a   Mullins, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; CRE RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE P1 ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LOXP SITE; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, P1 BACTERIOPHAGE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MICE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SOFTWARE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 34247130822     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl1108     Document Type: Article

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