Improvement of reporter activity by IRES-mediated polycistronic reporter system

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Bouabe, Hicham ^a   Fässler, Reinhard ^b   Heesemann, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; CAPPED RNA; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FLUORESCENT DYE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA PROCESSING;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CELL LINE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA CAPS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL;

EID: 41149112510     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm1119     Document Type: Article

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