Recognition of an expanded genetic alphabet by type-II restriction endonucleases and their application to analyze polymerase fidelity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3949-3961

  Chen, Fei ^a,b   Yang, Zunyi ^a,b   Yan, Maocai ^c   Alvarado, J Brian ^a,b   Wang, Ganggang ^c   Benner, Steven A ^a,b  

^a FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION   (United States)

^b Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology TWIST   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA METABOLISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY;

BASE PAIRING; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDES; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; NUCLEOTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYRIDONES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRIAZINES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79955984480     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1274     Document Type: Article

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