Cloning and analysis of MART-1/Melan-A human melanoma antigen promoter regions

Gene

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 129-134

  Butterfield, Lisa H ^a   Stoll, Thomas C ^a   Lau, Roy ^a   Economou, James S ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Melanocyte specific

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; LUCIFERASE; MELANOMA ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030928407     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00789-5     Document Type: Article

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