A synthetic low-frequency mammalian oscillator

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2702-2711

  Tigges, Marcel ^a   Dénervaud, Nicolas ^a,c   Greber, David ^a   Stelling, Joerg ^a   Fussenegger, Martin ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TETRACYCLINE; FLUORESCENT DYE; PHOTOPROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHO CELL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC CODE; INTRON; LOW FREQUENCY MAMMALIAN OSCILLATOR; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CRICETULUS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HAMSTER; METABOLISM; RNA INTERFERENCE;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 77950435582     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq121     Document Type: Article

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