Comparative Analysis of the Recently Discovered hAT Transposon TcBuster in Human Cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Woodard, Lauren E ^a   Li, Xianghong ^c   Malani, Nirav ^d   Kaja, Aparna ^a   Hice, Robert H ^b   Atkinson, Peter W ^b   Bushman, Frederic D ^d   Craig, Nancy L ^c   Wilson, Matthew H ^a,e  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSTER1 PROTEIN; BUSTER3 PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; DNA; SCAND3 PROTEIN; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYO; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PIGGYBAC; PLASMID; TCBUSTER; TOL2; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; TRANSPOSASES; TRIBOLIUM;

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 84869223704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042666     Document Type: Article

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