Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View
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...Covalently to DNA via a Phosphotyrosyl Linkage.” Molecular and Cellular Biology 5(11): 3274–79. PubMed PMID: 2427927...blogger Katrin Michel.
Cre-lox is an incredibly popular and powerful site specific recombinase (SSR) system... and Sadowski 1985). The FLP system works in a similar fashion to the Cre system. The FLP recombinase ...excision, inversion, and translocation of DNA in a similar fashion as between loxP sites (For details see ...mammalian cells (usually grown at 37 °C). Smart molecular evolution led to the identification of FLPe which...by adding a nuclear localization sequence (SV40 Large T nuclear localization sequence) and expressing ...codon optimization resulted in FLPO, which shows similar efficiency to Cre (Kranz et al. 2010).
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