Construction of a Z-DNA-specific restriction endonuclease
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Construction of a Z-DNA-specific restriction endonuclease.
Novel restriction enzymes can be created by fusing the nuclease domain of FokI endonuclease with defined DNA binding domains. Recently, we have characterized a domain (Z alpha) from the N-terminal region of human double-stranded RNA adenosine deaminase (hADAR1), which binds the Z-conformation with high specificity. Here we report creation of a conformation-specific endonuclease, Z alpha nucleas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.24.12875