Engineered meganucleases for genome engineering purposes

Topics in Current Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue , 2013, Pages 147-185

  Epinat, Jean Charles ^a   Silva, George H ^a   Pâques, Frédéric ^a   Smith, Julianne ^a   Duchateau, Philippe ^a  

^a Arvid Wallgrens Backe 20   (France)

Author keywords

Gene modifications; Homing endonuclease; I SceI; Meganuclease; TALEN

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865439818     PISSN: 16102096     EISSN: 16106970     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4531-5_6     Document Type: Article

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