Floxed reporter genes: Flow-cytometric selection of clonable cells expressing high levels of a target gene after tamoxifen-regulated Cre-loxP recombination

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 201-208

  Spiotto, Michael T ^a   Schreiber, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cre recombinase; Flow cytometry; Floxed reporters; Gene induction; loxP; Tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CLONE CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HLA-A2 ANTIGEN; INTEGRASES; MICE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TAMOXIFEN; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 33646938756     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2006.02.016     Document Type: Article

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