Agrobacterium tumefaciens-induced bacteraemia does not lead to reporter gene expression in mouse organs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Petrunia, Igor V ^a   Frolova, Olga Y ^a   Komarova, Tatiana V ^a   Kiselev, Sergey L ^c   Citovsky, Vitaly ^b   Dorokhov, Yuri L ^a,c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; LIVER; LUNG; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; ORGAN DISTRIBUTION; PLANT LEAF; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SPLEEN; TOBACCO; VIRUS ISOLATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GENETICS; HELA CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; MUS; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAULIMOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

EID: 48649087304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002352     Document Type: Article

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