The chicken CCAAT/Enhancer binding protein α gene. Cloning, characterisation and tissue distribution

Gene

Volumn 196, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 219-229

  Calkhoven, Cor F ^a,b   Gringhuis, Sonja I ^b   Geert, A B ^b  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CpG island; DNA binding; mRNA tissue distribution; Protein homology

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CPG ISLAND; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LIVER; LUNG; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SMALL INTESTINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEINS; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0030767460     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00230-8     Document Type: Article

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