Structure and Characterization of the 5′-Flanking Region of the Mouse Smooth Muscle Myosin Heavy Chain (SM1/2) Gene

Circulation Research

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 978-989

  Watanabe, Masafumi ^a   Sakomura, Yasunari ^a   Kurabayashi, Masahiko ^a   Manabe, Ichiro ^a   Aikawa, Masanori ^a   Kuro o, Makoto ^a   Suzuki, Toru ^a   Yazaki, Yoshio ^a   Nagai, Ryozo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CACC; Myosin heavy chain; SM1 2; Smooth muscle; Sp1

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; AORTA MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EVOLUTION; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RABBITS; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 0029950973     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.78.6.978     Document Type: Article

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