Plasmids 101: Cre-lox
Type
Blog Post
Published
Jan. 13, 2015, 3:47 p.m.
... Plasmids 101 series, we examined a number of important plasmid elements – promoters, origins of replication...recombination events. The system consists of two components derived from the P1 bacteriophage: the Cre recombinase...recognition site. The P1 bacteriophage uses these components as part of its natural viral life-cycle, and ...and researchers have adapted the components for use in genome manipulation.
Cre recombinase, originally...