Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

Amount

$168,000.00

Award Date

7/01/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Transposase activity was thought to be extinct in humans because DNA movement can be deleterious in higher organisms, resulting in genomic instability and perhaps malignancy. We isolated a human transposase protein termed Metnase that had preferential end