Sp1 sites in the mouse aprt gene promoter are required to prevent methylation of the CpG island

Genes and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 19, 1994, Pages 2282-2292

  Macleod, Donald ^a   Charlton, Julian ^a   Mullins, John ^b   Bird, Adrian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aprt; chromatin; CpG islands; DNA methylation; in vivo footprinting; LMPCR

Indexed keywords

ADENINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; METHYLATION; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0027960055     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.8.19.2282     Document Type: Article

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