An efficient transgenic system by TA cloning vectors and RNAi for C. elegans

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 349, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1345-1350

  Gengyo Ando, Keiko ^a,b   Yoshina, Sawako ^a,b,c   Inoue, Hideshi ^c   Mitani, Shohei ^a,b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluorescent protein; RNAi; TA cloning vector; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; HYBRID PROTEIN; LAG 2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLONING VECTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUSION GENE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOMICS; MOTONEURON; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VECTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33748777933     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.08.183     Document Type: Article

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