The SYT protein involved in the t(X;18) synovial sarcoma translocation is a transcriptional activator localised in nuclear bodies

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1559-1564

  Brett, David ^a   Whitehouse, Suzanna ^a   Antonson, Per ^a   Shipley, Janet ^a   Cooper, Colin ^a   Goodwin, Graham ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPORTER GENE; SPLICEOSOME; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; X CHROMOSOME;

CELL NUCLEUS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SARCOMA, SYNOVIAL; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030777332     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.9.1559     Document Type: Article

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