The family is growing: Old and new members of the family of site-specific recombinases and their application to genome engineering

Current Pharmacogenomics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 267-276

  Lauth, Matthias ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE; RESOLVASE;

BACTERIOPHAGE P1; BOVINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA RECOMBINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FAMILY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; YEAST;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 4444233079     PISSN: 15701603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1570160043377501     Document Type: Review

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