Retroviral transfer and expression of a humanized, red-shifted green fluorescent protein gene into human tumor cells

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 610-614

  Levy, John P ^a   Muldoon, Rebecca R ^a   Zolotukhin, Sergei ^a,b   Link, Charles J ^a  

^a Iowa Cancer Research Foundation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JELLYFISH; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROVIRUS; TUMOR CELL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL SEPARATION; DNA PRIMERS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; RETROVIRIDAE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

AEQUOREA VICTORIA; ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS; VICTORIA;

EID: 0029983088     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0596-610     Document Type: Article

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