Tetracycline-regulated suppression of amber codons in mammalian cells

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 4418-4425

  Park, Ho Jin ^a   RajBhandary, Uttam L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINOACYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CODON; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE REPRESSION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SUPPRESSOR CELL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031857535     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.8.4418     Document Type: Article

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