Site-specific recombination in human embryonic stem cells induced by cell-permeant Cre recombinase

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 461-467

  Nolden, Lars ^a   Edenhofer, Frank ^a,b   Haupt, Simone ^a,b   Koch, Philipp ^a   Wunderlich, F Thomas ^c   Siemen, Henrike ^a,c   Brüstle, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Life and Brain Center   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LOXP SITE; MUTAGENESIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TECHNOLOGY; TISSUE REGENERATION;

CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STEM CELLS;

EID: 33744527608     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth884     Document Type: Article

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