Structural analysis of the amplified IFN-β and DHFR genes in a Chinese hamster ovary cell line using multicolour FISH analysis

Chromosome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 329-332

  Dixkens, Christa ^a   Posseckert, G ^b   Keller, Th ^b   Hameister, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Rentschler Biotechnologie ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Chinese hamster ovary cell line; DHFR; Extended chromatin fibre; FISH; Gene amplification; IFNB

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHO CELL; CHROMATIN; DNA TRANSFECTION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE STRUCTURE; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHO CELLS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CRICETINAE; DNA PROBES; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTERFERON-BETA; KARYOTYPING; METHOTREXATE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; XANTHENES;

EID: 0031874576     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009231110030     Document Type: Article

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