Chicken β-globin insulator overcomes variegation of transgenes in Xenopus embryos

FASEB Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2534-2540

  Sekkali, Belaïd ^a,b   Hong, Thi Tran ^a   Crabbe, Ellen ^a   De Beule, Christophe ^a   Van Roy, Frans ^a   Vleminckx, Kris ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Heterochromatin; Position effect variegation; Transcriptional silencing

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; INSULATOR ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; POSITION EFFECT VARIEGATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CHICKENS; CHROMATIN; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLOBINS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS); XENOPUS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 46749110736     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.07-098111     Document Type: Article

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