A genetic strategy for stochastic gene activation with regulated sparseness (STARS)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Sheng Zhi ^a   Liu, Bao Hua ^a   Tao, Huizhong W ^a   Xia, Kun ^b   Zhang, Li I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; INTEGRASE;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LOXP SITE; MAMMAL CELL; REPORTER GENE; STOCHASTIC GENE ACTIVATION WITH REGULATED SPARSENESS; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; STATISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; INTEGRASES; MICE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 58449129102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004200     Document Type: Article

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