Exploiting position effects and the gypsy retrovirus insulator to engineer precisely expressed transgenes

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 476-483

  Markstein, Michele ^a   Pitsouli, Chrysoula ^a   Villalta, Christians ^a   Celniker, Susan E ^b   Perrimon, Norbert ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; INSULATOR ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; CHROMATIN; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, INSECT; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETROVIRIDAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENES; WING;

EID: 41349092785     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.101     Document Type: Article

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