Silencing of RNA polymerases II and III-dependent transcription by the KRAB protein domain of KOX1, a Kruppel-type zinc finger factor

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 378, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 669-677

  Moosmann, Peter ^a   Georgiev, Oleg ^a   Thiesen, Hans Jürgen ^b   Hagmann, Michael ^a   Schaffner, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenovirus VA RNA I; Phage RNA polymerase; Remote gene control; rRNA gene promoter; Silencer; Transcription repression

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; HYBRID PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030855387     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1997.378.7.669     Document Type: Article

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