Genome-wide insertional mutagenesis in human cells by the Drosophila mobile element Minos

EMBO Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 416-421

  Klinakis, Apostolos G ^a,b   Zagoraiou, Laskaro ^a,b   Vassilatis, Demetrios K ^b   Savakis, Charalambos ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXONS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, HUMAN; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0034331034     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvd089     Document Type: Article

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