Journal
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 354, Issue 1-2, Pages 301-309Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11010-011-0832-3
Keywords
PiggyBac; Sleeping Beauty; Transposon; Vector; Forward genetics; Genetic tool
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- EU [NMP4-CT-2006-026556]
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Transposons have been promising elements for gene integration, and the Sleeping Beauty (SB) system has been the major one for many years, although there have been several other transposon systems available, for example, Tol2. However, recently another system known as PiggyBac (PB) has been introduced and developed for fulfilling the same purposes, for example, mutagenesis, transgenesis and gene therapy and in some cases with improved transposition efficiency and advantages over the Sleeping Beauty transposon system, although improved hyperactive transposase has highly increased the transposition efficacy for SB. The PB systems have been used in many different scientific research fields; therefore, the purpose of this review is to describe some of these versatile uses of the PiggyBac system to give readers an overview on the usage of PiggyBac system.
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