A novel approach to gene therapy of albino hair in histoculture with a retroviral Streptomyces tyrosinase gene

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 345-351

  Zhao, Ming ^a   Saito, Norimitsu ^a   Li, Lingna ^a   Baranov, Eugene ^a   Kondoh, Hirofumi ^b   Mishima, Yutaka ^b   Sugiyama, Masanori ^c   Katsuoka, Kensei ^d   Hoffman, Robert M ^a  

^a ANTICANCER INC   (United States)

^b Mishima Institute for Dermatological Research   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Albino; Retrovirus; Skin histoculture; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

ALBINO HAIR; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA FRAGMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE LOCUS; GENE THERAPY; GENE; MAMMAL CELL; MELANIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOMYCES ANTIBIOTICUS; STREPTOMYCES;

ALBINISM; ANIMALS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HAIR DISEASES; MELANINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RETROVIRIDAE; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN; STREPTOMYCES ANTIBIOTICUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; MURINAE; RETRO VIRUS; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES ANTIBIOTICUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0033810718     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2000.130507.x     Document Type: Article

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