Conservation of a putative AP1 binding site and complete homology to a fetal brain EST in a region upstream of the core muscle promoter in the human dystrophin gene

Gene

Volumn 200, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 173-176

  Patarnello, T ^a   Klamut, H J ^b   Danieli, G A ^a   Bettecken, T ^c   Fracasso, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

EST; Evolution; Gene expression; Gene structure; Inverse PCR

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DYSTROPHIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN; FETUS; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DYSTROPHIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FETUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PURKINJE CELLS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030778732     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00414-9     Document Type: Article

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