Plasmids 101: Cre-lox
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Published
Jan. 13, 2015, 3:47 p.m.
...: PMC49604.
4. Independent control of immunoglobulin switch recombination at individual switch regions...PMID: 8513499.
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...-lox system is a technology that can be used to induce site-specific recombination events. The system ...key advantage of the system is that Cre acts independently of any other accessory proteins or co-factors...recognition sequences consisting of two 13-bp long palindromic repeats separated by an 8-bp long asymmetric ...certain stages of development, or by making the Cre inducible (such as with tamoxifen or doxycycline), the Cre...unique asymmetric spacer "NNNTANNN", where "N" indicates which bases may vary from the canonical sequence...