c-fos protooncogene transcription can be modulated by oligonucleotide-mediated formation of triplex structures in vitro

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 238, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 582-590

  Lavrovsky, Yan ^a   Stoltz, Robert A ^a   Vlassov, Valentin V ^b   Abraham, Nader G ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY AND FUNDAMENTAL MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

c fos; Gene regulation; Promoter; Transcription factor; Triplex

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYCLIC AMP; DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; ONCOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DNA ALKYLATION; DNA HELIX; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTO ONCOGENE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, FOS; GENES, REPORTER; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SULFURIC ACID ESTERS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030014315     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0582z.x     Document Type: Article

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