Locus control region elements HS2 and HS3 in combination with chromatin boundaries confer high-level expression of a human β-globin transgene in a centromeric region

Genes to Cells

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1043-1053

  Kang, Sung Hae Lee ^a   Levings, Padraic P ^a   Andersen, Felicie ^a   Laipis, Philip J ^a   Berns, Kenneth I ^a   Zori, Robert T ^a   Bungert, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; NUCLEASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHICKENS; CHROMATIN; GLOBINS; HUMANS; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; TRANSGENES;

GALLUS GALLUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 7944227721     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2004.00788.x     Document Type: Article

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