Isolation and characterization of Tn7 transposase gain-of-function mutants: a model for transposase activation.

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Published in EMBO J on July 03, 2000

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F Lu1, N L Craig

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1: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205-2185, USA.

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