The 5'-flanking region of the human smooth muscle cell calponin gene contains a cis-acting domain for interaction with a methylated DNA-binding transcription repressor

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 18-21

  Takahashi, Katsuhito ^a   Tazunoki, Tetsushi ^b   Okada, Tsutomu ^b   Ohgami, Kinya ^b   Miwa, Takeshi ^c   Miki, Akiko ^b   Shibata, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^b KIRIN BREWERY CO LTD   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actin binding protein; Alu repetitive sequence; Calponin; CpG island; DNA methylation; Smooth muscle specific gene

Indexed keywords

CALPONIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EXON; HUMAN; INTRON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; START CODON;

EID: 0029774776     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021382     Document Type: Article

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