Long-term episomal transgene expression from mitotically stable integration-deficient lentiviral vectors

Human Gene Therapy

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 428-442

  Kymäläinen, Hanna ^a   Appelt, J Uwe ^b   Giordano, Frank A ^c   Davies, Angela F ^d   Ogilvie, Caroline M ^d   Ahmed, Sherif G ^a   Laufs, Stephanie ^b   Schmidt, Manfred ^b   Bode, Juergen ^e   Yáñez Muñoz, Rafael J ^a   Dickson, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; CIRCULAR DNA; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CHO CELL LINE; EPISOME; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; CELL CLONE; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; CELL NUCLEUS; CRICETULUS; DEPENDOPARVOVIRUS; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; LENTIVIRINAE; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGION; METABOLISM; PLASMID; TIME; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHO CELLS; CLONE CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DEPENDOVIRUS; DNA, CIRCULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; LENTIVIRUS; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGIONS; MITOSIS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPLICATION ORIGIN; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84901203834     PISSN: 10430342     EISSN: 15577422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hum.2013.172     Document Type: Article

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