Generality of a functional initiator consensus sequence

Gene

Volumn 182, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 13-22

  Lo, Kiersten ^a   Smale, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Promoter; RNA polymerase II; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DEPENDOVIRUS; DNA PROBES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030571478     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00438-6     Document Type: Article

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