Isolation and characterization of a TATA-less promoter for the human RAG-1 gene

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1059-1066

  Kurioka, Hideyuki ^a,b   Kishi, Hiroyuki ^a   Isshiki, Hiroshi ^a   Tagoh, Hiromi ^a   Mori, Keiko ^a   Kitagawa, Taro ^a   Nagata, Takuya ^a   Dohi, Kazuhiro ^b   Muraguchi, Atsushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genomic DNA; Transcription initiation site

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRONS; LEUKOCYTES; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030237233     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-5890(96)00062-4     Document Type: Article

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