Use of the EGP-2/Ep-CAM promoter for targeted expression of heterologous genes in carcinoma derived cell lines

Cancer Gene Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 603-612

  McLaughlin, Pamela M J ^a,b   Trzpis, Monika ^a,b   Kroesen, Bart Jan ^a,b   Helfrich, Wijnand ^a,b   Terpstra, Peter ^a,b   Dokter, Wim H A ^a,b   Ruiters, Marcel H J ^a,b   De Leij, Lou F M H ^a,b   Harmsen, Martin C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GA733 2; Suicide gene therapy; Transcriptional targeting

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; GANCICLOVIR; GLYCOPROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HUMAN EPITHELIAL GLYCOPROTEIN 2; LUCIFERASE; THYMIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL SURFACE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG TARGETING; EPITHELIUM CELL; FETUS; GA733 2 GENE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SUICIDE GENE; SUICIDE GENE THERAPY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; GANCICLOVIR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 4444274009     PISSN: 09291903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cgt.7700725     Document Type: Article

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