Nuclear targeting of a bacterial integrase that mediates site-specific recombination between bacterial and human target sequences

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 201-210

  Agúndez, Leticia ^a   MacHón, Cristina ^a,b   Elvira César, Carolina ^a,b   Rosa Garrido, Manuel ^a   Delgado, M Dolores ^a   Llosa, Matxalen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELLS; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; C TERMINUS; C-TERMINAL DOMAINS; CELLULAR LOCALIZATION; CONJUGATIVE TRANSFER; DISCRETE NUMBERS; DNA STRANDS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EXPORT SIGNALS; HELICASES; HUMAN CELLS; HUMAN GENOMES; INTEGRASE; MAMMALIAN CELLS; NATURAL TARGETS; NUCLEAR EXPORT SIGNALS; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION; NUCLEAR TARGETING; SITE-SPECIFIC; SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION; TARGET SEQUENCES; TRANSFERRED DNAS;

ASSAYS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; GENES; MAMMALS; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

BACTERIOLOGY;

DNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; TRWC PROTEIN, E COLI;

BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOME; MUTATION; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION; YEAST;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE TARGETING; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79251612164     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01371-10     Document Type: Article

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