Presence of potent transcriptional activation domains in the predisposing tuberous sclerosis (Tsc2) gene product of the Eker rat model

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 429-433

  Tsuchiya, Haruo ^a   Orimoto, Kenji ^a   Kobayashi, Toshiyuki ^a   Hino, Okio ^a  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; TUBERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; EXON; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; INTRON; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; HYBRID CELLS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0030064915     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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