In vivo footprints are found in the Xenopus 63 kDa keratin gene promoter prior to the appearance of mRNA

Gene

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 209-212

  Warshawsky, David ^a,b   Miller, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA protein interactions; Gene expression; Transcription

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; KERATINS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030970911     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00850-5     Document Type: Article

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