Increased protein expression from adenoviral shuttle plasmids and vectors by insertion of a small chimeric intron sequence

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-77

  Hermening, Stephan ^a   Kügler, Sebastian ^b   Bähr, Mathias ^b   Isenmann, Stefan ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenovirus; CNS, gene transfer; Gene expression; Gene therapy; Immune response; Intron

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; LUCIFERASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSLATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TITRIMETRY;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRONS; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

ADENOVIRIDAE; CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 5644271521     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2004.08.005     Document Type: Article

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