Transgene integration into the same chromosome location can produce alleles that express at a predictable level, or alleles that are differentially silenced

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 2869-2880

  Day, Christopher D ^a   Lee, Elsa ^a,b   Kobayashi, Janell ^a,c   Holappa, Lynn D ^a,d   Albert, Henrik ^a,e   Ow, David W ^a  

^a PLANT GENE EXPRESSION CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TRANSGENOMIC INC   (United States)

^e US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Cre lox; Epigenetics; Gene silencing; Methylation; Site specific recombination

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE;

ALLELES; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GENOME, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLANTS, TOXIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0034669170     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.849600     Document Type: Article

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