Insertion of a foreign gene into the β-casein locus by Cre-mediated site-specific recombination

Gene

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-31

  Kolb, Andreas F ^a,b   Ansell, Ray ^c   McWhir, Jim ^c   Siddell, Stuart G ^b  

^a HANNAH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embryonic stem cells; Gene expression; Genome engineering; Homologous recombination

Indexed keywords

BETA CASEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CASEINS; INTEGRASES; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0033521856     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00607-6     Document Type: Article

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