A Critical Role of Sp1- and Ets-Related Transcription Factors in Maintaining CTL-Specific Expression of the Mouse Perforin Gene

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3499-3509

  Youn, Byung S ^a   Kim, Kack K ^a   Kwon, Byoung S ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA; DRUG DERIVATIVE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MITOPODOZIDE; ONCOPROTEIN; PERFORIN; PODOPHYLLIN; PODOPHYLLOTOXIN; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BINDING SITE; CELL LINE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PODOPHYLLIN; PODOPHYLLOTOXIN; POINT MUTATION; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-ETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030587880     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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