Conditionals by inversion provide a universal method for the generation of conditional alleles

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

Volumn 110, Issue 34, 2013, Pages

  Economides, Aris N ^a   Frendewey, David ^a   Yang, Peter ^a   Dominguez, Melissa G ^a   Dore, Anthony T ^a   Lobov, Ivan B ^a   Persaud, Trikaldarshi ^a   Rojas, Jose ^a   McClain, Joyce ^a   Lengyel, Peter ^a   Droguett, Gustavo ^a   Chernomorsky, Rostislav ^a   Stevens, Sean ^a   Auerbach, Wojtek ^a   DeChiara, Thomas M ^a   Pouyemirou, William ^a   Cruz Jr , Joseph M ^a   Feeley, Kieran ^a   Mellis, Ian A ^a   Yasenchack, Jason ^a   Hatsell, Sarah J ^a   Xie, Liqin ^a   Latres, Esther ^a   Huang, Lily ^a   Zhang, Yuhong ^a   Pefanis, Evangelos ^a   Skokos, Dimitris ^a   Deckelbaum, Ron A ^a   Croll, Susan D ^a   Davis, Samuel ^a   Valenzuela, David M ^a   Gale, Nicholas W ^a   Murphy, Andrew J ^a   Yancopoulos, George D ^a   more..

^a REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional null; Genome engineering

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA MODIFICATION; EXON; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

DNA POLYMERASE; SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINASE;

ALLELES; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SEQUENCE INVERSION;

EID: 84882801469     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217812110     Document Type: Article

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