Rational engineering of type II restriction endonuclease DNA binding and cleavage specificity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5222-5233

  Morgan, Richard D ^a   Luyten, Yvette A ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (NADP); TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 69849088756     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp535     Document Type: Article

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