Differential sensitivity of zinc finger transcription factors MTF-1, Sp1 and krox-20 to CpG methylation of their binding sites

Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler

Volumn 377, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-56

  Radtke, Freddy ^a   Hug, Martin ^a   Georgiev, Oleg ^a   Matsuo, Koichi ^a   Schaffner, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Krox 20; Metal responsive element (MRE); MTF 1; Zinc finger transcription factors

Indexed keywords

METALLOTHIONEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0030044251     PISSN: 01773593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm3.1996.377.1.47     Document Type: Article

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