Woodchuck hepatitis virus posttranscriptional regulatory element enhances expression of transgenes delivered by retroviral vectors

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2886-2892

  Zufferey, Romain ^a   Donello, John E ^b   Trono, Didier ^a,c   Hope, Thomas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c CMU ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; RNA; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DUCK; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSGENE; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 0032978712     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.4.2886-2892.1999     Document Type: Article

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