PCR-Based bioprospecting for homing endonucleases in fungal mitochondrial rRNA genes

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1123, Issue , 2014, Pages 37-53

  Hafez, Mohamed ^a   Guha, Tuhin Kumar ^b   Chen, Shen ^b   Sethuraman, Jyothi ^b   Hausner, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Data mining; Endonuclease assays; Homing endonucleases; Protein purification

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; HOMING ENDONUCLEASE; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC SCREENING; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENDONUCLEASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, RRNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84934439535     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-968-0_3     Document Type: Article

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