The Fidelity Index provides a systematic quantitation of star activity of DNA restriction endonucleases

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Wei, Hua ^a   Therrien, Caitlin ^b   Blanchard, Aine ^a   Guan, Shengxi ^a   Zhu, Zhenyu ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; GLYCEROL; MANGANESE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; BUFFER; DNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESTRICTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FIDELITY INDEX; INCUBATION TIME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; METABOLISM; NOMENCLATURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE;

BUFFERS; DNA; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 44449085373     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn182     Document Type: Article

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