Ubiquitous expression of the monomeric red fluorescent protein mcherry in transgenic mice

Genesis

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 723-729

  Fink, Dieter ^a,c   Wohrer, Stefan ^a   Pfeffer, Martin ^a   Tombe, Tabitha ^b   Ong, Christopher J ^b   Sorensen, Poul H B ^a  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Lentivirus; MCherry; Mouse; PFUCW; RFP; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MONOMER; MONOMER CHERRY; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TETRAMER; UBIQUITIN C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; LEUKOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; THROMBOCYTE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOTYPE; LEUKOCYTES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; LENTIVIRUS; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 78650242756     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20677     Document Type: Article

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