Human endogenous retroviral long terminal repeat sequences as cell type-specific promoters in retroviral vectors

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 12643-12650

  Schön, Ulrike ^a,f   Diem, Olivia ^a,b   Leitner, Laura ^a   Günzburg, Walter H ^c   Mager, Dixie L ^d   Salmons, Brian ^e   Leib Mösch, Christine ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^e Austrianova Singapore Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^f Medizinisch Genetisches Zentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETROVIRUS VECTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RETROVIRUS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, MURINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSFECTION;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS H; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS;

EID: 70450170839     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00858-09     Document Type: Article

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