The major histocompatibility complex class II Ea promoter requires TFIID binding to an initiator sequence

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 503-512

  Bellorini, Marianna ^a   Dantonel, Jean Christophe ^b   Yoon, Jong Bok ^c   Roeder, Robert G ^c   Tora, Laszlo ^b   Mantovani, Roderto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ARTICLE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0030053671     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.2.503     Document Type: Article

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