Extended core sequences from the cHS4 insulator are necessary for protecting retroviral vectors from silencing position effects

Human Gene Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 333-343

  Aker, Mari ^a   Tubb, Julie ^a   Groth, Amy C ^a   Bukovsky, Anatoly A ^b   Bell, Adam C ^c   Felsenfeld, Gary ^c   Kiem, Hans Peter ^b   Stamatoyannopoulos, George ^a   Emery, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RETROVIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VECTORS; GLOBINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; LENTIVIRUS; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

MURINAE;

EID: 34248140839     PISSN: 10430342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hum.2007.021     Document Type: Article

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