A τ promoter region without neuronal specificity

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2257-2263

  Andreadis, Athena ^a   Wagner, Bridget K ^a   Broderick, Jennifer A ^a   Kosik, Kenneth S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b E K Shriver Ctr Mental Retard ^*

Author keywords

5' Untranslated region; Homogeneous initiation sites; Microtubule associated protein ; Promoter mapping; Specificity of expression

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DRUG BINDING SITE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

EID: 0029891185     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1996.66062257.x     Document Type: Article

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