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Nancy L Craig

Professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Verified email at jhmi.edu
Cited by 13483

Mobile DNA III

NL Craig - 2020 - books.google.com
Craig assembled a team of multidisciplinary experts to develop this cutting-edge resource
that covers the specific molecular mechanisms involved in recombination, including a detailed …

Target site selection in transposition

NL Craig - Annual review of biochemistry, 1997 - annualreviews.org
… Although termination per se does not appear to be essential to attTn7 target activity (109),
transcription across attTn7 can decrease Tn7 insertion into attTn7 (R DeBoy & NL Craig, …

The mechanism of conservative site-specific recombination

NL Craig - Annual review of genetics, 1988 - annualreviews.org
… Recent surveys of several CSSR systems are included in reviews by Sadowski (156) and
Craig & Kleckner (35); detailed descriptions of particular CSSR systems collected in Mobile …

A hyperactive piggyBac transposase for mammalian applications

…, MA Li, A Bradley, NL Craig - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
DNA transposons have been widely used for transgenesis and insertional mutagenesis in
various organisms. Among the transposons active in mammalian cells, the moth-derived …

E. coli integration host factor binds to specific sites in DNA

NL Craig, HA Nash - Cell, 1984 - cell.com
… attack) to DNA segments containing the regulatory regions of the Salmonella typhimurium
HU gene (Craig, Nash, and Simon, unpublished observations) or the E. coli i/v!3 gene (…

Tn7: smarter than we thought

JE Peters, NL Craig - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2001 - nature.com
… Peters, JE & Craig, NL Tn7 recognizes target structures associated with DNA replication using
… & Craig, NL Target DNA structure plays a critical role in Tn7 transposition. EMBO J. 20, 1–…

piggyBac transposase tools for genome engineering

…, FD Bushman, PL Sinn, NL Craig - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The transposon piggyBac is being used increasingly for genetic studies. Here, we describe
modified versions of piggyBac transposase that have potentially wide-ranging applications, …

piggyBac can bypass DNA synthesis during cut and paste transposition

R Mitra, J Fain‐Thornton, NL Craig - The EMBO journal, 2008 - embopress.org
… We also thank the Craig lab members for their valuable insights into this project. This work
was partly supported by National Institute of Health (NIH) grant NC90020064 to NLC. NLC is …

[HTML][HTML] Fast, easy and efficient: site-specific insertion of transgenes into Enterobacterial chromosomes using Tn7 without need for selection of the insertion event

GJ McKenzie, NL Craig - BMC microbiology, 2006 - Springer
… DeBoy RT, Craig NL: Tn7 transposition as a probe of cis interactions between widely separated
(190 kilobases apart) DNA sites in the Escherichia coli chromosome. J … Nancy L Craig

Transposition of hAT elements links transposable elements and V(D)J recombination

…, PW Atkinson, A Burgess Hickman, F Dyda, NL Craig - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Transposons are DNA sequences that encode functions that promote their movement to new
locations in the genome. If unregulated, such movement could potentially insert additional …