Stable MLV-VL30 dicistronic retroviral vectors with a VL30 or MoMLV sequence promoting both packaging of genomic RNA and expression of the 3′ cistron

Human Gene Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 603-612

  Torrent, Christophe ^a,b   Berlioz, Clarisse ^a   Darlix, Jean Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE PLACENTA ISOENZYME; NEOMYCIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PACKAGING; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; MOUSE; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; RETROVIRUS; RNA TRANSLATION;

3T3 CELLS; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FRIEND MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; KANAMYCIN KINASE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PLACENTA; RETROVIRIDAE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0029967421     PISSN: 10430342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hum.1996.7.5-603     Document Type: Article

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