Use of green fluorescent protein/Flp recombinase fusion protein and flow cytometric sorting to enrich for cells undergoing Flp-mediated recombination

BioTechniques

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 966-974

  Sabath, Daniel E ^a,b   Shim, Mi Hyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL;

EID: 0034066062     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/00285rr02     Document Type: Article

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