A retroviral expression system based on tetracycline-regulated tricistronic transactivator/repressor vectors for functional analyses of antiproliferative and toxic genes

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1927-1934

  Ausserlechner, Michael J ^a   Obexer, Petra ^b   Deutschmann, Andrea ^a,b   Geiger, Kathrin ^b   Kofler, Reinhard ^a,b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b TYROLEAN CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1B; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G0 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOXYCYCLINE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NEUROBLASTOMA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETROVIRIDAE; TETRACYCLINE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFECTION; TRISTETRAPROLIN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 33748353422     PISSN: 15357163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-05-0500     Document Type: Article

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