Improve 'activator trap' method for the isolation of transcriptional activation domains from random DNA fragments

BioTechniques

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 848-854

  Escher, Dominik ^a   Schaffner, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; HYBRID PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALIA; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; HUMANS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0029658539     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/96215st02     Document Type: Article

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