An efficient binary system for gene expression in the silkworm, Bombyx mori, using GAL4 variants

Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 195-210

  Kobayashi, Isao ^a   Kojima, Katsura ^a   Uchino, Keiro ^a   Sezutsu, Hideki ^a   Iizuka, Tetsuya ^a   Tatematsu, Ken Ichiro ^a   Yonemura, Naoyuki ^a   Tanaka, Hiromitsu ^a   Yamakawa, Minoru ^a   Ogura, Eri ^b   Kamachi, Yusuke ^b   Tamura, Toshiki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; GAL4; Silkworm; Transactivation; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GAL4 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PLASMID; SILKWORM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BOMBYX; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 79952707073     PISSN: 07394462     EISSN: 15206327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/arch.20402     Document Type: Article

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