Gfi-1 encodes a nuclear zinc finger protein that binds DNA and functions as a transcriptional repressor

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 4024-4034

  Zweidler Mckay, Patrick A ^a   Grimes, H Leighton ^a   Flubacher, Marcella M ^a   Tsichlis, Philip N ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYTOKINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; INTERLEUKIN 2; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA METHYLATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENHANCER REGION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTO ONCOGENE; REPRESSOR GENE; T CELL LYMPHOMA; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMOMA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0029897536     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.8.4024     Document Type: Article

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