Parameters Affecting the Use of the lac Repressor System in Eukaryotic Cells and Transgenic Animals

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 447-458

  Wyborski, Denise L ^a   DuCoeur, Linda C ^a   Short, Jay M ^b  

^a Stratagene   (United States)

^b Recombinant BioCatalysis Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

IPTG; Lac operator; Lac repressor; Regulation of gene expression; Transgenic animals

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MUS MUSCULUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; LACI PROTEIN, BACTERIA; METHYLGALACTOSIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; THIOGLYCOSIDE; THIOMETHYLGALACTOSIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; TIME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; MALE; METHYLATION; METHYLGALACTOSIDES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; THIOGALACTOSIDES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030331127     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2280(1996)28:4<447::AID-EM22>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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