A novel GFPneo vector designed for the isolation and analysis of enhancer elements in transfected mammalian cells

Gene

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 181-189

  Primig, Michael ^a,b   Chang, Ted Hung Tse ^b   Buckingham, Margaret ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Epifluorescence; G418 selection; PCR; Regulatory element

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING VECTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENHANCER REGION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE FUSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE CELL; MYOBLAST; MYOTUBE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DESMIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GENTAMICINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KANAMYCIN KINASE; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLES; MYOD PROTEIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032540933     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00215-7     Document Type: Article

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