SpringerProtocols: Abstract: Strategies for Gene Fusions

Strategies for Gene Fusions

By: Stefan StÃ¥hl², Per-Ãke Nygren², Mathias UhlÃ©n²

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Recombinant DNA technology enabling genes or gene fragments to be spliced to form fusions has become an important objective in many fields of research. The fusion proteins, expressed from such operatively linked genes, often display the combined properties of the parent proteins and are used extensively in microbiology, molecular biology, immunology, and bio-technology (1–3).

Affiliation(s): (2) Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Book Title: Recombinant Gene Expression Protocols

Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 62 | Pub. Date: Mar-06-1997 | Page Range: 37-54 | DOI: 10.1385/0-89603-480-1:37

Subject: Genetics/Genomics

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