Mutants of Cre recombinase with improved accuracy

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Eroshenko, Nikolai ^a   Church, George M ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FECAL COLIFORM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; MUTATION; PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LOXP SITE; NONHUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84884949575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3509     Document Type: Article

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