DNA vector chemistry: The covalent attachment of signal peptides to plasmid DNA

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 80-85

  Sebestyén, Magdolna G ^a   Ludtke, James J ^a   Bassik, Michael C ^a   Zhang, Guofeng ^a   Budker, Vladimir ^a   Lukhtanov, Eugeny A ^b   Hagstrom, James E ^a   Wolff, Jon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Nanogen Inc USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene transfer; Nuclear localization signal; Nuclear transport

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VIRUS LARGE T ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA TRANSFER; GENE TRANSFER; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

ANTIGENS, POLYOMAVIRUS TRANSFORMING; CELL NUCLEUS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; CYCLOPROPANES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INDOLES; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031974554     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0198-80     Document Type: Article

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