Construction and Use of a Bottom-Up HAC Vector for Transgene Expression

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 738, Issue , 2011, Pages 101-110

  Ikeno, Masashi ^a   Suzuki, Nobutaka ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alphoid DNA; BAC; Cre lox recombination; HAC; MMCT; Transgene

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; HUMAN CELL; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL FUSION; CHO CELL; CRICETULUS; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HELA CELL; HYBRID CELL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MITOSIS; MOUSE; PLASMID;

ANIMALS; CELL FUSION; CHO CELLS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, MAMMALIAN; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; HYBRID CELLS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; MITOSIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 79960920665     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-099-7_7     Document Type: Chapter

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