Substitution of the human β-spectrin promoter for the human (A)γ- globin promoter prevents silencing of a linked human β-globin gene in transgenic mice

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 6634-6640

  Sabatino, Denise E ^a   Cline, Amanda P ^a   Gallagher, Patrick G ^b   Garrett, Lisa J ^a   Stamatoyannopoulos, George ^c   Forget, Bernard G ^b   Bodine, David M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; GAMMA GLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA; SPECTRIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; YOLK SAC;

EID: 0031796378     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.11.6634     Document Type: Article

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