Exogenous gypsy insulator sequences modulate transgene expression in the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles stephensi

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 7176-7181

  Carballar Lejarazú, Rebeca ^a   Jasinskiene, Nijole ^a   James, Anthony A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Transgenesis; Transposase

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; HEMIZYGOTE; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC MARKERS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECT VECTORS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSGENES; TRANSPOSASES;

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84876949598     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1304722110     Document Type: Article

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