Upstream genomic sequence of the human connexin 26 gene

Gene

Volumn 199, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 165-171

  Kiang, David T ^a   Jin, Ni ^a   Tu, Zheng Jin ^a   Lin, Her H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin 26 promoter, human; Mammery epithelial cell

Indexed keywords

BETA CASEIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; EXON; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONNEXINS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030768747     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00365-X     Document Type: Article

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