Single copy shRNA configuration for ubiquitous gene knockdown in mice

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Seibler, Jost ^a   Küter Luks, Birgit ^a   Kern, Heidrun ^a   Streu, Sandra ^a   Plum, Leona ^b   Mauer, Jan ^b   Kühn, Ralf ^a,d   Brüning, Jens C ^b   Schwenk, Frieder ^a,c  

^a Artemis Pharmaceuticals GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c Department of Applied Natural Sciences   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINASE; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; GTROSA26 PROTEIN, MOUSE; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TETRAPLOIDY; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSGENES;

EID: 26644467465     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gni065     Document Type: Article

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