A brain-sparing diphtheria toxin for chemical genetic ablation of peripheral cell lineages
Diphtheria toxin selectively kills cells engineered to express the diphtheria toxin receptor (DTR). Here the authors report a PEGylated version of diphtheria toxin that does not enter the brain, allowing for ablation of only peripheral cells when using Cre lines that drive DTR expression in both the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2017-04-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14967 |