DNA replication in nucleus-free xenopus egg extracts

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 521, Issue , 2009, Pages 229-252

  Lebofsky, Ronald ^a   Takahashi, Tatsuro ^a   Walter, Johannes C ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell free system; DNA replication; In vitro; Nucleoplasmic extract; Origin unwinding; Pre replicative complex; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CYTOSOL; DNA REPLICATION; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; SPERMATOZOON; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CHROMATIN; CYTOSOL; DNA REPLICATION; FEMALE; MALE; OOCYTES; PROTEINS; SPERMATOZOA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 68349151239     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-815-7_13     Document Type: Article

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