USER™ friendly DNA engineering and cloning method by uracil excision

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1992-2002

  Bitinaite, Jurate ^a   Rubino, Michelle ^b   Varma, Kamini Hingorani ^c   Schildkraut, Ira ^d   Vaisvila, Romualdas ^a   Vaiskunaite, Rita ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^b MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

^d CerroSci LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYURIDINE; ENDONUCLEASE; URACIL; RECOMBINANT DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; URACIL DNA GLYCOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; CLONING VECTOR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLASMID;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYURIDINE; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ENDONUCLEASES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URACIL-DNA GLYCOSIDASE;

EID: 34247876216     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm041     Document Type: Article

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