Hsmar1 Transposition Is Sensitive to the Topology of the Transposon Donor and the Target

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Claeys Bouuaert, Corentin ^a,b   Chalmers, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA HELIX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HSMAR1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL;

EID: 84872360200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053690     Document Type: Article

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