Expression of transgenes targeted to the Gt(ROSA)26Sor locus is orientation dependent

PLoS ONE

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Strathdee, Douglas ^a,b   Ibbotson, Helen ^b   Grant, Seth G N ^a,b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GTROSA26 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RELIABILITY; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEINS; TETRACYCLINE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 35548970476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000004     Document Type: Article

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