A versatile, highly efficient, and potentially safer piggyBac transposon system for mammalian genome manipulations

FASEB Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4429-4443

  Meir, Yaa Jyuhn James ^a   Lin, Angelique ^a   Huang, Meng Fan ^a   Lin, Jiao Rung ^a   Weirauch, Matthew T ^b   Chou, Hsiang Chen ^a   Lin, Siang Jin Ashley ^a   Wu, Sareina Chiung Yuan ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Gene therapy; Induced pluripotent stem cell; Remobilization

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; THYPLGMH PROTEIN; TPLGMH PROTEIN; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EMBRYO; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOME; MAMMAL; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE THERAPY; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; REMOBILIZATION;

ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CHROMOSOMES; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 84887087163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.12-223586     Document Type: Article

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