Intrinsic sequence specificity of the Cas1 integrase directs new spacer acquisition

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue AUGUST2015, 2015, Pages

  Rollie, Clare ^a   Schneider, Stefanie ^b   Brinkmann, Anna Sophie ^c   Bolt, Edward L ^c   White, Malcolm F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR APOPTOSIS SUSCEPTIBILITY PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; NUCLEOTIDE; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; YGBT PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRINSIC SEQUENCE SPECIFICITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; TRANSESTERIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CRISPR-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 84941907747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.08716     Document Type: Article

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