The proximal promoter region of mTert is sufficient to regulate telomerase activity in ES cells and transgenic animals

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pericuesta, Eva ^a   Ramírez, Miguel Angel ^a   Villa Diaz, Ana ^b   Relaño Gines, Aroa ^b   Torres, Juan Maria ^b   Nieto, Marta ^c   Pintado, Belen ^a   Gutiérrez Adán, Alfonso ^a  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TYROSINE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BRAIN CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELL TYPE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM LAYER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMATIC CELL; TELOMERE; TESTIS CELL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; STEM CELLS; TELOMERASE; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33746324509     PISSN: 14777827     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-4-5     Document Type: Article

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