Attachment Site Selection and Identity in Bxb1 Serine Integrase-Mediated Site-Specific Recombination

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Singh, Shweta ^a   Ghosh, Pallavi ^a   Hatfull, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; SERINE INTEGRASE BXB1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATTACHMENT SITE SELECTION; BASE PAIRING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; ENZYME BINDING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION;

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BASE PAIRING; DNA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SERINE; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84878517418     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003490     Document Type: Article

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