Binary recombinase systems for high-resolution conditional mutagenesis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3894-3907

  Hermann, Mario ^a,b   Stillhard, Patrick ^a   Wildner, Hendrik ^a   Seruggia, Davide ^c,d   Kapp, Viktor ^a   Sánchez Iranzo, Héctor ^e   Mercader, Nadia ^e   Montoliu, Lluís ^c,d   Zeilhofer, Hanns Ulrich ^a,f   Pelczar, Pawel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^e CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL LINE; GENES, REPORTER; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; NEOCORTEX; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84898938868     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1361     Document Type: Article

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