Setting Your Sites On Genes: Site-directed mutagenesis kits provide fast and efficient peeks into gene function
Date: October 13, 1997 Comparison Chart Knowing the sequence of a gene will never reveal all its secrets. There needs to be a way to tie the sequence of the DNA to the function of the protein. Almost as old as the field of genetics itself is the study of mutations-heritable changes in DNA-through which scientists have attempted to make this connection. With advances in molecular biology technology and in particular the development of the means for synthesizing DNA, mutations are being produce
| Date: October 13, 1997 | Comparison Chart  |
While there are a number of approaches to in vitro mutagenesis-linker scanning, linker insertions, or nested deletions, to name a few-by far the most common in use today is site-directed mutagenesis and, in particular, oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis, as revealed by the 12 kits that are in the market today. Oligo-directed...
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