Functional redundancy of promoter elements ensures efficient transcription of the human 7SK gene in vivo

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 253, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 677-690

  Boyd, Diana C ^a   Turner, Philip C ^b   Watkins, Nicholas J ^b   Gerster, Thomas ^c   Murphy, Shona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

7SK gene; Enhancer; Proximal sequence element TATA box; Transcription

Indexed keywords

EID: 0028828644     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1995.0582     Document Type: Article

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