Site-specific modification of genome with cell-permeable Cre fusion protein in preimplantation mouse embryo

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 388, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 122-126

  Kim, Kyoungmi ^a   Kim, Hwain ^a   Lee, Daekee ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cre recombinase; Embryonic development; Germ line transmission; Preimplantation embryo; Protein transduction; ROSA26; Site specific recombination

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENOME; INTEGRASES; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 68949100437     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.07.132     Document Type: Article

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