Controlling gene expression with the Q repressible binary expression system in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 391-395

  Wei, Xing ^a   Potter, Christopher J ^a,b   Luo, Liqun ^a   Shen, Kang ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; QUINIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; Q REPRESSIBLE BINARY EXPRESSION SYSTEM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; QUINIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 84859213913     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1929     Document Type: Article

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