Viral sequences enable efficient and tissue-specific expression of transgenes in Xenopus

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 253-257

  Fu, Yuchang ^a   Wang, Yibin ^a   Evans, Sylvia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adeno associated virus; Animal models; Development; Inverted terminal repeats; Microinjection

Indexed keywords

ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ARTICLE; DNA TRANSFECTION; EMBRYO; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DEPENDOVIRUS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEART; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SOMITES; TRANSGENES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031935287     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0398-253     Document Type: Article

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