Intraclonal protein expression heterogeneity in recombinant CHO cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Pilbrough, Warren ^a   Munro, Trent P ^a,b   Gray, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ACYTE Biotech Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL POPULATION; CHO CELL; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

CRICETULUS GRISEUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77954076709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008432     Document Type: Article

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