Evaluation of a heterologous metallothionein gene promoter in transfected mosquito cells

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 353-358

  Wu, Christina C N ^a   Fallon, Ann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

cadmium; copper; galactokinase; insect; metallothionein promoter; mosquito cell line; polybrene; transfection

Indexed keywords

GALACTOKINASE; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

EID: 0030921940     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(96)00265-9     Document Type: Article

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