Tetracycline-reversible silencing of eukaryotic promoters

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1907-1914

  Deuschle, Ulrich ^a,b   Meyer, Wolfram K H ^a   Thiesen, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SWITCHING; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0028897720     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.15.4.1907     Document Type: Article

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