Control of the functional activity of an antisense RNA by a tetracycline-responsive derivative of the human U6 snRNA promoter

Human Gene Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 577-585

  Ohkawa, Jun ^a,b   Taira, Kazunari ^a,c  

^a NATL INST FOR ADV INTERDISC RES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TETRACYCLINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034052609     PISSN: 10430342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/10430340050015761     Document Type: Article

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