The Transcription Factor B Cell-Specific Activator Protein is Not Involved in the IL-4-Induced Activation of the Human IgE Germline Promoter

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1538-1543

  Albrecht, Bettina ^a   Peiritsch, Susanna ^a   Messner, Birgit ^a   Woisetschläger, Maximilian ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 4; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PAX5 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PAX5 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE P55(BLK); PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASE P55(BLK); RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SRC-FAMILY KINASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030586670     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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