Ligation and Ligases
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- DOI: 10.1101/pdb.top101352
Ligation and Ligases
Abstract
DNA ligases are used chiefly to create novel combinations of nucleic acid molecules and to attach them to vectors before molecular cloning. They are either of bacterial origin or bacteriophage encoded and have different properties, as discussed here.
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