Trans-activation by the human aryl hydrocarbon receptor and aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator proteins: Direct interactions with basal transcription factors

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 538-548

  Rowlands, J Craig ^a,b   Mcewan, Iain J ^a   Gustafsson, Jan Åke ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR NUCLEAR TRANSLOCATOR; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, TFII; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029810168     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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