Structural and functional characterization of the human FMR1 promoter reveals similarities with the hnRNP-A2 promoter region

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2051-2060

  Drouin, Régen ^a,b   Angers, Martin ^a,b   Dallaire, Nancy ^a,b   Rose, Timothy M ^c   Khandjian, Edouard W ^a,b   Rousseau, François ^a,b  

^a Université Laval   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA FOOTPRINTING; EXON; FIBROBLAST; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION MALFORMATION SYNDROME; ONCOGENE C MYC; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN GROUP A-B; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0030668366     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.12.2051     Document Type: Article

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