Regulated multicistronic expression technology for mammalian metabolic engineering

Cytotechnology

Volumn 28, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 111-126

  Fussenegger, Martin ^a   Moser, Samuel ^a   Bailey, James E ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

autoregulation; cell cycle engineering; eukaryotic operon; IRES; multigene engineering; picornavirus; pTRIDENT; regulated expression

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CELL CYCLE; HUMAN CELL; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; MAMMAL CELL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PICORNAVIRIDAE;

EXPRESSION VECTOR; METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; PICORNAVIRIDAE;

EID: 0032422374     PISSN: 09209069     EISSN: 15730778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008037916674     Document Type: Article

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