Cre-loxP system as a versatile tool for conferring increased levels of tissue-specific gene expression from a weak promoter

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1085-1093

  Nakamura, Shingo ^a   Watanabe, Satoshi ^b   Ohtsuka, Masato ^c   Maehara, Tadaaki ^a   Ishihara, Masayuki ^a   Yokomine, Takaaki ^d   Sato, Masahiro ^e  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Laboratory of Frontier Medicine   (Japan)

^e KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cre loxP system; EGFP; Electroporation; Fluorescent protein; Liposome; Luciferase; Weak promoter

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LUCIFERASE; NEPHRIN; THYMIDINE KINASE; CRE RECOMBINASE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTEGRASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; ANIMAL; CELL STRAIN 3T3; FEMALE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVIDUCT; PLASMID; RABBIT; REPORTER GENE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENE;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; MURINAE; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTEGRASES; LUCIFERASES; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; OVIDUCTS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RABBITS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 42949095458     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20847     Document Type: Article

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