Efficient control of gene expression by a tetracycline-dependent transactivator in single Dictyostelium discoideum cells

Gene

Volumn 252, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 71-82

  Blaauw, Mieke ^a   Linskens, Maarten H K ^a   Van Haastert, Peter J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fluorescence activated cell sorting; Green fluorescent protein; Inducible promoter; Luciferase

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KINETICS; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TETRACYCLINE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0034636706     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00227-4     Document Type: Article

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