Early B cell factor interacts with a subset of K promoters

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3788-3796

  Sigvardsson, Mikael ^a,b   Åkerblad, Peter ^a   Leanderson, Tomas ^a,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Dept of Cell and Molecular Biology   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMACYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER 1; PLASMACYTOMA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029968321     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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