Isolation and characterisation of tilapia β-actin promoter and comparison of its activity with carp β-actin promoter

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1625, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-18

  Hwang, Gyu Lin ^a   Rahman, M Azizur ^a   Razak, Shaharudin Abdul ^a   Sohm, Frédéric ^a,b   Farahmand, Hamid ^a   Smith, Alan ^a   Brooks, Carly ^a   Maclean, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

actin gene; Promoter; Tilapia; Transgenic fish

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; GENOMIC DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXON; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAINING; TILAPIA; ZEBRA FISH;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CARPS; MICROINJECTIONS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TILAPIA; TRANSGENES;

CYPRINUS CARPIO; DANIO RERIO; OREOCHROMIS; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; TILAPIA;

EID: 0037414906     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(02)00534-1     Document Type: Article

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