Production of highly knotted DNA by means of cosmid circularization inside phage capsids

BMC Biotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Trigueros, Sonia ^a,b   Roca, Joaquim ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA;

COSMID CIRCULARIZATION; DNA KNOTS; PHAGE CAPSIDS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

CIRCULAR DNA; VIRUS DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); RECOMBINANT DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COSMID VECTOR; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; LYSOGENIZATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PROPHAGE; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CHEMISTRY; COLIPHAGE; CONFORMATION; COSMID; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MIRIDAE;

BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CAPSID; COLIPHAGES; COSMIDS; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DNA, VIRAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 38949099079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6750-7-94     Document Type: Article

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