Polypurine/polypyrimidine sequences as cis-acting transcriptional regulators

Gene

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-26

  Brahmachari, Samir K ^a   Sarkar, Partha S ^a   Raghavan, Sowmya ^a   Narayan, Malathy ^a   Maiti, Amit K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Coding strand; DNA sequence analysis; Down regulation; Expression vectors; Promoter; Repetitive DNA; Triplex; Upstream activating sequences; Yeast genome

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; REPETITIVE DNA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE CASSETTE; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; DNA; DOWN-REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VECTORS; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030999532     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00034-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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