Stringent and reproducible tetracycline-regulated transgene expression by site-specific insertion at chromosomal loci with pre-characterised induction characteristics

BMC Molecular Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Brough, Rachel ^a,b   Papanastasiou, Antigoni M ^a,c   Porter, Andrew C G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; ENDONUCLEASE; ENDONUCLEASE I SCEI; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHOKINASE; LUCIFERASE; PLASMID VECTOR; RAD52 PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE SCEI; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LOXP SITE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; PHYSIOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; RAD52 DNA REPAIR AND RECOMBINATION PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TETRACYCLINE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 34249799900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-8-30     Document Type: Article

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