Vika/vox, a novel efficient and specific Cre/loxP-like site-specific recombination system

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Karimova, Madina ^a   Abi Ghanem, Josephine ^b   Berger, Nicolas ^a   Surendranath, Vineeth ^c   Pisabarro, Maria Teresa ^b   Buchholz, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; DRE RECOMBINASE; KANAMYCIN; RECOMBINASE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VCRE RECOMBINASE; VIKA RECOMBINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CATALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LOXP SITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CORALLIILYTICUS; VOX SITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIOPHAGES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TYROSINE;

MAMMALIA; VIBRIO CORALLIILYTICUS;

EID: 84875434512     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1037     Document Type: Article

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