A photoactivatable Cre-loxP recombination system for optogenetic genome engineering

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1059-1064

  Kawano, Fuun ^a,b   Okazaki, Risako ^a   Yazawa, Masayuki ^b   Sato, Moritoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; INTEGRASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; ILLUMINATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT; LOXP SITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; COS CELL LINE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTEGRASES; MICE; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84990935760     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2205     Document Type: Article

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