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Rearranging the centromere of the human Y chromosome with phiC31 integrase.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jan 2005
Malla Sunir, Dafhnis-Calas Felix, Brookfield John F Y, Smith Margaret C M, Brown William R A
Abstract excerpt
We have investigated the ability of the integrase from the Streptomyces phiC31 'phage to either delete or invert 1 Mb of DNA around the centromere of the human Y chromosome in chicken DT40 hybrid somatic cells. Reciprocal and conservative site-specific recombination was observed in 54% of cells expressing the integrase. The sites failed to recombine in the remaining cells because the sites had been damaged. The...
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