Analysis of human interferon-α gene promoters by multiple sequence alignment

Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 93-98

  Houle, John L ^a   Santoro, Nicola ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS;

EID: 0030043828     PISSN: 10799907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jir.1996.16.93     Document Type: Article

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