Targeted expression of Cre recombinase provokes placental-specific DNA recombination in transgenic mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Zhou, Cissy Chenyi ^a   Chang, Jiang ^b   Mi, Tiejuan ^a   Abbasi, Shahrzad ^a   Gu, Dongmin ^a   Huang, Le ^c   Zhang, WenZheng ^c   Kellems, Rodney E ^a   Schwartz, Robert J ^b   Xia, Yang ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; CRE RECOMBINASE; DNA; INTEGRASE; PLACENTA PROTEIN; TPBPA PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE GENE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRE RECOMBINASE GENE; DNA RECOMBINATION; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST SPECIFIC PROTEIN ALPHA GENE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGION;

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; LUCIFERASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84857187560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029236     Document Type: Article

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