Co-integration of β-lactoglobulin/human serum albumin hybrid genes with the entire β-lactoglobulin gene or the matrix attachment region element: Repression of human serum albumin and β-lactoglobulin expression in the mammary gland and dual regulation of the transgenes

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 421-430

  Barash, Itamar ^a   Ilan, Neta ^a   Kari, Rachel ^a   Hurwitz, David R ^b   Shani, Moshe ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

Co injection; Gene expression; Milk proteins

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BETA LACTOGLOBULIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HYBRID GENE; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLAND; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BREAST; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME; HUMANS; LACTOGLOBULINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MILK; NUCLEAR MATRIX; RNA; SERUM ALBUMIN; SHEEP; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0029959646     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199612)45:4<421::AID-MRD3>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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