Recombinant Tol2 transposase with activity in Xenopus embryos

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 4333-4336

  Shibano, Takashi ^a   Takeda, Masatoshi ^a   Suetake, Isao ^b   Kawakami, Koichi ^c   Asashima, Makoto ^a,d   Tajima, Shoji ^b   Taira, Masanori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Tol2 transposase; Xenopus transgenesis

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT TOL2 TRANSPOSASE; TETRAMER; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXCISION REPAIR; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENICS; TRANSPOSON; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROINJECTIONS; ORYZIAS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSPOSASES; XENOPUS;

EID: 34548176555     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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