Genetic recombination
Subtitle: reviews and protocols
By: edited by Alan S. Waldman
Contributors: Waldman, Alan S
Series: Methods in molecular biology -- v. 262; Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) --  262
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Genetic recombination
Description: Features state-of-the-art techniques to study genetic recombination in eukaryotes; methods for using recombination as a tool for producing targeted genetic modification; chapters on using recombination as a reporter of genomic instability; and biochemical analyses of the mechanisms underlying recombination.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Determination of mitotic recombination rates by fluctuation analysis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Rachelle Miller Spell and Sue Jinks-Robertson; title: Determination of intrachromosomal recombination rates in cultured mammalian cells / Jason A. Smith and Alan S. Waldman; title: Intrachromosomal homologous recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana / Waltraud Schmidt-Puchta, Nadiya Orel, Anzhela Kyryk, and Holger Puchta; title: Analysis of recombinational repair of DNA double-strand breaks in mammalian cells with I-SceI nuclease / Jac A. Nickoloff and Mark A. Brenneman; title: Transformation of monomorphic and pleomorphic Trypanosoma brucei / Richard McCulloch, Erik Vassella, Peter Burton, Michael Boshart, and J. David Barry; title: Forward genetic screens for meiotic and mitotic recombination-defective mutants in mice / Laura Reinholdt, Terry Ashley, John Schimenti, and Naoko Shima; title: Detecting carcinogens with the yeast DEL assay / Richard J. Brennan and Robert H. Schiestl; title: In vivo DNA deletion assay to detect environmental and genetic predisposition to cancer / Ramune Reliene, Alexander J. R. Bishop, Jiri Aubrecht, and Robert H. Schiestl; title: Gene targeting at the chromosomal immunoglobulin locus: a model system for the study of mammalian homologous recombination mechanisms / Mark D. Baker; title: DNA fragment transplacement in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: some genetic considerations / Glenn M. Manthey, Michelle S. Navarro, and Adam M. Bailis; title: Targeted gene modification using triplex-forming oligonucleotides / Jean Y. Kuan and Peter M. Glazer; title: Using nucleases to stimulate homologous recombination / Dana Carroll; title: Enhancement of in vivo targeted nucleotide exchange by nonspecific carrier DNA / Katie K. Maguire and Eric B. Kmiec; title: The use of the chromatin immunoprecipitation to investigate protein-DNA interactions during recombination / Tamara Goldfarb and Eric Alani; title: Holliday junction branch migration and resolution assays / Angelos Constantinou and Stephen C. West