Conditional control of gene expression in the mouse

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 743-755

  Lewandoski, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; DNA POLYMERASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GAL4 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE ENCODING TRANSPOSON REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE-ENCODING TRANSPOSON REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL LINEAGE; FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FORECASTING; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TETRACYCLINE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0035491607     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35093537     Document Type: Review

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