Use of green fluorescent protein variants to monitor gene transfer and expression in mammalian cells

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 606-609

  Cheng, Linzhao ^a   Fu, Joan ^a   Tsukamoto, Ann ^a   Hawley, Robert G ^b  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

FACS; Fluorescence microscopy; Gene therapy; Gene transduction; GFP

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; RETROVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL LINE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MUTATION; RETROVIRIDAE; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MAMMALIA; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS; VICTORIA;

EID: 0029981362     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0596-606     Document Type: Article

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