AQUA cloning: A versatile and simple enzyme-free cloning approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Beyer, Hannes M ^a   Gonschorek, Patrick ^a   Samodelov, Sophia L ^a   Meier, Matthias ^a   Weber, Wilfried ^a   Zurbriggen, Matias D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; LOGIC; MUTAGENESIS; ONE POT SYNTHESIS; PLASMID; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PROCEDURES; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84945287721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137652     Document Type: Article

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