Sandwiched zinc-finger nucleases harboring a single-chain FokI dimer as a DNA-cleavage domain

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 390, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 694-697

  Mori, Tomoaki ^a   Kagatsume, Ikuko ^a   Shinomiya, Kazuki ^a   Aoyama, Yasuhiro ^a   Sera, Takashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial zinc finger protein; Double stranded DNA cleavage; Meganuclease; Single chain FokI dimer; Zinc finger nuclease

Indexed keywords

DIMER; NUCLEASE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN FOKI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA CLEAVAGE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TECHNOLOGY;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA; DNA CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 70449697880     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.10.030     Document Type: Article

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