Position-dependent transcriptional regulation of the murine dihydrofolate reductase promoter by the E2F transactivation domain

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1966-1976

  Fry, Christopher J ^a   Slansky, Jill E ^a,b   Farnham, Peggy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0030943297     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.4.1966     Document Type: Article

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