Rational design of a super core promoter that enhances gene expression

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 917-922

  Juven Gershon, Tamar ^a   Cheng, Susan ^a   Kadonaga, James T ^a  

^a SECTION OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II;

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ADENOVIRIDAE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; METAZOA;

EID: 33750345805     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth937     Document Type: Article

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