Primary transgenic bovine cells and their rejuvenated cloned equivalents show transgene-specific epigenetic differences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Alonso González, Lucia ^a,b   Couldrey, Christine ^a   Meinhardt, Marcus W ^a,c   Cole, Sally A ^a   Wells, David N ^a   Laible, Götz ^a  

^a RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CASEIN; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PUROMYCIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL GROWTH; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; LOXP SITE; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE; CLONING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CATTLE; CLONING, ORGANISM; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84859974006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035619     Document Type: Article

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