Unidirectional cloning by cleaving heterogeneous sites with a single sandwiched zinc finger nuclease

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 414, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 733-736

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

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA cloning; Meganuclease; Sandwiched zinc finger nuclease; Single chain FokI dimer; Zinc finger protein

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; SPACER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CLONING; DNA SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA; DNA CLEAVAGE; PLASMIDS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 80555122822     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.09.145     Document Type: Article

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