Improved methods for creating migratable Holliday junction substrates

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Stefanie Hartman ^a   Plank, Jody L ^b   Willcox, Smaranda ^c   Griffith, Jack D ^c   Hsieh, Tao Shih ^a,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF CELLULAR AND ORGANISMIC BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; INTEGRASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MIGRATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIOPHAGE M13; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, CRUCIFORM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTEGRASES; PLASMIDS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84876377448     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1343     Document Type: Article

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