Conditional gene manipulation: Cre-ating a new biological era

Journal of Zhejiang University: Science B

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 511-524

  Zhang, Jian ^a   Zhao, Jing ^a   Jiang, Wen Jie ^a   Shan, Xi Wei ^a   Yang, Xiao Mei ^a   Gao, Jian Gang ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

C31 system; Gene targeting; Gene trapping; Inducible systems; Site specific recombinase

Indexed keywords

AFIMOXIFENE; CRE RECOMBINASE; DNA; DOXYCYCLINE; INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TAMOXIFEN; TETRACYCLINE;

ALLELE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DISEASE MODEL; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRAPPING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; LOXP SITE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SITE SPECIFIC RECOMBINASE SYSTEM; SITE SPECIFIC RECOMBINASE SYSTEM CRE LOXP; SITE SPECIFIC RECOMBINASE SYSTEM FLP FRT; SITE SPECIFIC RECOMBINASE SYSTEM PHI C31 INTEGRASE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; RECOMBINASES;

EID: 84863973946     PISSN: 16731581     EISSN: 18621783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1631/jzus.B1200042     Document Type: Review

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