A directional strategy for monitoring Cre-mediated recombination at the cellular level in the mouse

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 562-565

  Schnütgen, Frank ^a,b   Doerflinger, Nathalie ^a   Calléja, Cécile ^a   Wendling, Olivia ^a   Chambon, Pierre ^a   Ghyselinck, Norbert B ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; DNA; GENES; TISSUE;

GENE ABLATION;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CRE RECOMBINASE; DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

ANIMALS; COS CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 0037657915     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt811     Document Type: Article

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