Cre-Lox and Other Site-Specific Recombinases
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... site into a genomic attP site. So far, their practical application has been limited by low integration...sequential strand exchange at a specific target site (called loxP for Cre, or FRT for Flp). The nature of the...other recombinase systems. Enzyme Target Site Canonical Sequence Structure (Length) Common Variants Cre...repeats + 4 bp spacer (32 bp) Currently, only the canonical rox site is widely used. Flp FRT GAAGTTCCTATTCCGAAGTTCCTATTCtctagaaaGTATAGGAACTTC...Expression: A stop codon flanked with loxP sites (often called a "lox-STOP-lox" or "LSL" cassette) placed upstream...Placing the loxP sites on either side of a gene (called "floxing", for "flanked by loxP"), will permit ...excise the shRNA to return gene expression to physiological levels. In lox-STOP-lox shRNA constructs, Cre...