Design of vectors for transgene expression: The use of genomic comparative approaches

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 81-90

  Montoliu, Lluís ^a   Roy, Rosa ^a   Regales, Lucía ^a   García Díaz, Ángel ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Expression; Genomic DNA; Insulator; Transgene

Indexed keywords

ACID PROTEIN; BETA GLOBIN; DNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; STAT5 PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; FROG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RAT; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENICS; WHEY; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MILK PROTEINS; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 58849160968     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2007.11.013     Document Type: Article

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