Targeting individual subunits of the FokI restriction endonuclease to specific DNA strands

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2105-2115

  Sanders, Kelly L ^a   Catto, Lucy E ^a   Bellamy, Stuart R W ^a   Halford, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MONOMER; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN FOKI; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DNA STRAND; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA; GENE TARGETING; KINETICS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65549139378     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp046     Document Type: Article

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