An engineered epigenetic transgene switch in mammalian cells

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 867-870

  Kramer, Beat P ^a   Viretta, Alessandro Usseglio ^a   Baba, Marie Daoud El ^b   Aubel, Dominique ^b   Weber, Wilfried ^a   Fussenegger, Martin ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institut Universitaire de Technologie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELLS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROTEINS;

EPIGENETIC TRANSGENE CONTROL; MICROENCAPSULATION;

GENES;

GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHINESE HAMSTER; CHO CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IMPLANTATION; MAMMAL CELL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROENCAPSULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICE; PRISTINAMYCIN; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS; MAMMALIA; SYNTHETIC CONSTRUCT;

EID: 3042822415     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt980     Document Type: Article

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