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Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PfAgo Figure

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Restriction enzymes are essential tools for recombinant DNA technology that have revolutionized modern biological research, however have limited sequence specificity and availability. The Pyrococcus furiosus Argonaute (PfAgo) based platform for generating artificial restriction enzymes (AREs) is capable of recognizing and cleaving DNA sequences at virtually any arbitrary site and generating defined sticky ends of varying length.

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Behnam Enghiad and Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign

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