Keratin 14 Cre Transgenic Mice Authenticate Keratin 14 as an Oocyte-Expressed Protein

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 176-181

  Hafner, Martin ^a,b   Wenk, Jutta ^b   Nenci, Arianna ^c   Pasparakis, Manolis ^c   Scharffetter Kochanek, Karin ^b,d   Smyth, Neil ^b   Peters, Thorsten ^b,d   Kess, Daniel ^b,d   Holtkötter, Olaf ^b   Shephard, Pierre ^b   Kudlow, Jeffrey E ^f   Smola, Hans ^b,e   Haase, Ingo ^b   Schippers, Angela ^a   Krieg, Thomas ^b   Müller, Werner ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EMBL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^e NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cre recombinase; Intermediate filament; Keratin 14; Maternal expression; Oocyte

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CRE RECOMBINASE; CYTOKERATIN 14; KERATIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; ESOPHAGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TONGUE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 2342471358     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gene.20016     Document Type: Article

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