The promoter activity of long terminal repeats of the HERV-H family of human retrovirus-like elements is critically dependent on Sp1 family proteins interacting with a GC/GT box located immediately 3′ to the TATA box

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 188-198

  Sjøttem, Eva ^a   Anderssen, Sølvi ^a   Johansen, Terje ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FAMILY; REPORTER GENE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CYTOSINE; DNA, VIRAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GUANINE; HELA CELLS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROVIRIDAE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TATA BOX; THYMINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, SP1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029655710     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.1.188-198.1996     Document Type: Article

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