The 3' untranslated region of the carcinoembryonic antigen gene plays a minimal role in the regulation of gene expression

Cell Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 353-360

  Bordonaro, Michael ^a   Augenlicht, Leonard ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRAIN HT29; COLON TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; BUTYRIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030967302     PISSN: 10449523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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