Restriction enzymes and their use in molecular biology: An overview

Restriction enzymes have been identified in the early 1950s of the past century and have quickly become key players in the molecular biology of DNA. Forty years ago, the scientists whose pioneering work had explored the activity and sequence specificity of these enzymes, contributing to the definiti...

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Published in:Journal of biosciences 2019-06, Vol.44 (2), p.1-8, Article 38
Main Authors: Di Felice, Francesca, Micheli, Gioacchino, Camilloni, Giorgio
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Cell Biology
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
Enzymes
Life Sciences
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Microbiology
Molecular biology
Nucleotide sequence
Plant Sciences
Proteins
Review
Specificity
Zoology
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Microbiology
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Proteins
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Specificity
Zoology
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