Sequential genetic modification of the hprt locus in human ESCs combining gene targeting and recombinase-mediated cassette exchange

Cloning and Stem Cells

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 217-229

  Di Domenico, Alexandra I ^a   Christodoulou, Ioannis ^b   Pells, Steve C ^c   McWhir, Jim ^a   Thomson, Alison J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL LINE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 44349158319     PISSN: 15362302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/clo.2008.0016     Document Type: Article

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