A new mouse gene, SRG3, related to the SWI3 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is required for apoptosis induced by glucocorticoids in a thymoma cell line

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 185, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1827-1836

  Jeon, Sung H ^a   Kang, Myeong G ^a   Kim, Young H ^a   Jin, Yong H ^a   Lee, Changjin ^a   Chung, Hee Yong ^b   Kwon, Hyockman ^c   Park, Sang D ^a   Seong, Rho H ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Cancer Center Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Dankook University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THYMOCYTE; THYMOMA; TUMOR CELL LINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TESTIS; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030908362     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.185.10.1827     Document Type: Article

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