A red/far-red light-responsive bi-stable toggle switch to control gene expression in mammalian cells

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Müller, Konrad ^a   Engesser, Raphael ^a   Metzger, Stéphanie ^b,c   Schulz, Simon ^d   Kämpf, Michael M ^a   Busacker, Moritz ^a   Steinberg, Thorsten ^d   Tomakidi, Pascal ^a,d   Ehrbar, Martin ^b,e   Nagy, Ferenc ^a,f   Timmer, Jens ^a   Zubriggen, Matias D ^a   Weber, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SWITCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIGHT; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED LIGHT;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; CRICETINAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MICE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHYTOCHROME B; TRANSGENES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84876520276     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt002     Document Type: Article

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