Targeted transfection of DT40 cells.
In order to understand the function of genes, transfection can be used as a method in which artificially prepared knockout and expression constructs are being introduced into cell lines. Since many genes are essential for embryonic development and a homozygous deletion results in non-viable embryos, gene disruption in a cell line by using transfected constructs might be an alternative choice. Electroporation is often used to stably transfect knockout and knockin vectors into DT40 cell line.
Saribasak
Huseyin
H
GSF, Institute for Molecular Radiobiology, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, D-85764 Neuherberg-Munich, Germany.
Arakawa
Hiroshi
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D000818:Animals; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology*; D002645:Chickens; D010957:Plasmids; D014162:Transfection