Evaluating the potential for undesired genomic effects of the piggyBac transposon system in human cells

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1770-1782

  Saha, Sunandan ^a   Woodard, Lauren E ^b,c   Charron, Elizabeth M ^b,c   Welch, Richard C ^b,c   Rooney, Cliona M ^a,d   Wilson, Matthew H ^a,b,c,d  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR CELL AND GENE THERAPY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TRANSPOSASE; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TRANSPOSON;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIGGYBAC; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; DNA DAMAGE; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DNA DAMAGE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, HUMAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENES; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 84936067788     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv017     Document Type: Article

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