A versatile system for USER cloning-based assembly of expression vectors for mammalian cell engineering

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Lund, Anne Mathilde ^a   Kildegaard, Helene Faustrup ^b   Petersen, Maja Borup Kjær ^a,c   Rank, Julie ^a   Hansen, Bjarne Gram ^a,c   Andersen, Mikael Rørdam ^a   Mortensen, Uffe Hasbro ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

^c NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; EPITOPE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ENGINEERING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOLOGY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; ANIMAL; CHO CELL LINE; CRICETULUS; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HEK293 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL ENGINEERING; CHO CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS;

EID: 84902308825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096693     Document Type: Article

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