Conditional allelic replacement applied to genes encoding the histone variant H3.3 in the mouse

Genesis

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 142-146

  Tang, Michelle C W ^a,b   Jacobs, Shelley A ^a   Wong, Lee H ^c   Mann, Jeffrey R ^a,b  

^a MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Conditional gene targeting; Epigenetics; H3f3a; H3f3b; Histone H3.3

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; HISTONE H3;

ALLELIC REPLACEMENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; LOXP SITE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALLELES; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE TARGETING; HISTONES; INTEGRASES; MICE; MUTATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

MUS;

EID: 84873999534     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22366     Document Type: Article

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