Hybrid tetanus toxin C fragment-diphtheria toxin translocation domain allows specific gene transfer into PC12 cells

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 75-87

  Barati, Shahram ^a   Chegini, Fariba ^a   Hurtado, Plinio ^a   Rush, Robert A ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diphtheria toxin; GAL4; Gene delivery; Neuron; NLS; PC12 cells; Plasmid; Polycation; Protamine; Tetanus toxin

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DNA FRAGMENT; LYSINE DERIVATIVE; PLASMID DNA; POLYLYSINE; PROTAMINE; TETANUS TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRYPTOPHAN DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA PURIFICATION; ENDOSOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0036435535     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.2002.7999     Document Type: Article

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