Transposon-based approaches for generating novel molecular diversity during directed evolution

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1179, Issue , 2014, Pages 159-172

  Jones, D Dafydd ^a   Arpino, James A J ^a   Baldwin, Amy J ^a   Edmundson, Matthew C ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Directed evolution; Domain insertion; Expanded genetic code; Molecular diversity; Mu transposon; Trinucleotide deletion; Trinucleotide exchange

Indexed keywords

DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; TRINUCLEOTIDE; TRANSPOSON;

ARTICLE; CODON; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EVOLUTION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE INSERTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; TRANSPOSON; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS;

EID: 84925884541     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1053-3_11     Document Type: Article

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