Methylation of an ETS site in the intron enhancer of the keratin 18 gene participates in tissue-specific repression

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 4885-4894

  Umezawa, Akihiro ^a   Yamamoto, Hideyuki ^b   Rhodes, Katherine ^b   Klemsz, Michael J ^c   Maki, Richard A ^b   Oshima, Robert G ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; METHYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030744463     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.9.4885     Document Type: Article

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