Identification of a tau promoter region mediating tissue-specific-regulated expression in PC12 cells

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 805-812

  Sadot, Einat ^a   Heicklen Klein, Alice ^a   Barg, Jacob ^a,b   Lazarovici, Philip ^c   Ginzburg, Irith ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b Therapeutic Community Ramot Yehuda   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

EGF; Neuronal promoter; NGF; PC12 cells; Tau

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GUANINE; LUCIFERASE; TAU PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL STRAIN; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NERVE CELL; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TATA BOX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029933181     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0126     Document Type: Editorial

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