Use of locked nucleic acid oligonucleotides to add functionality to plasmid DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 5817-5830

  Hertoghs, Kirsten M L ^a,b   Ellis, Jonathan H ^a   Catchpole, Ian R ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION; DNA VACCINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; LIPID; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID; PHOSPHOROTHIOIC ACID; PLASMID DNA; REAGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA BINDING; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DNA SUPERCOILING; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE GUN; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MACROPHAGE; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STOICHIOMETRY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHO CELLS; CPG ISLANDS; CRICETINAE; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0344874534     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg801     Document Type: Article

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