Enhancer complexes located downstream of both human immunoglobulin Cα genes

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 845-858

  Mills, Frederick C ^a   Harindranath, Nagaradona ^a   Mitchell, Mary ^a   Max, Edward E ^a  

^a CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ARTICLE; DNA TRANSFECTION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030886813     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.186.6.845     Document Type: Article

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