Conditional targeted genome editing using somatically expressed TALENs in C. elegans

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 934-937

  Cheng, Ze ^a,b   Yi, Peishan ^a   Wang, Xiangming ^a   Chai, Yongping ^a   Feng, Guoxin ^a   Yang, Yihong ^a   Liang, Xing ^a   Zhu, Zhiwen ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Ou, Guangshuo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE MODIFICATION; MODEL ORGANISMS; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCIES; TISSUE-SPECIFIC PROMOTER; VERSATILE TOOLS;

CELLS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); TISSUE; TRANSCRIPTION;

GENE ENCODING;

KHELLIN; NUCLEASE; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR LIKE EFFECTOR NUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; KNOCKOUT GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENOME, HELMINTH; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEURONS; RNA EDITING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84885667762     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.2674     Document Type: Article

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