A Reliable lacZ Expression Reporter Cassette for Multipurpose, Knockout-First Alleles

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 151-158

  Testa, Giuseppe ^a   Schaft, Julia ^a   Van Der Hoeven, Frank ^b   Glaser, Stefan ^a   Anastassiadis, Konstantinos ^a   Zhang, Youming ^c   Hermann, Thomas ^d   Stremmel, Wolfgang ^d   Stewart, A Francis ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c Gene Bridges GmbH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditional; Knockout; Mouse; Mutagenosis; Reporter

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1942519367     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gene.20012     Document Type: Article

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