Selection of a T7 promoter mutant with enhanced in vitro activity by a novel multi-copy bead display approach for in vitro evolution

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Paul, Siddhartha ^a   Stang, Alexander ^a   Lennartz, Klaus ^b   Tenbusch, Matthias ^a   Überla, Klaus ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; DNA ISOLATION; EMULSION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTANT; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REACTOR; RNA TRANSLATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE T7; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DNA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84871732589     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks940     Document Type: Article

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