Harnessing nuclear localization pathways for transgene delivery

Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 170-177

  Bremner, K H ^a   Seymour, L W ^a   Pouton, C W ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nuclear entry; Nuclear localization sequence; Nuclear pore complex; Synthetic vectors; Viruses

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CATION; DNA; POLYMER; PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; EVALUATION; GENE TARGETING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSGENE; VIRUS GENE;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ADENOVIRIDAE; CELL NUCLEUS; DEPENDOVIRUS; DNA; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMANS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; TRANSGENES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035027546     PISSN: 14648431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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