Tobacco ribosomal DNA spacer element stimulates amplification and expression of heterologous genes

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1303-1306

  Borisjuk, Nikolai ^a,b   Borisjuk, Ludmyla ^b,c   Komarnytsky, Slavko ^a   Timeva, Sofia ^a   Hemleben, Vera ^d   Gleba, Yuri ^e   Raskin, Ilya ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Phytomedics Inc   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Enhanced transcription; Gene amplification; Protein expression; Recombinant proteins; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HERBICIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0033674453     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/82430     Document Type: Article

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