Hepatocyte nuclear factor-3α promoter regulation involves recognition by cell-specific factors, thyroid transcription factor-1, and autoactivation

Cell Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-82

  Peterson, Richard S ^a   Clevidence, Derek E ^a   Ye, Honggang ^a   Costa, Robert H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UROTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-ALPHA; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBULES, COLLECTING; LIVER; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NFI TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; Y-BOX-BINDING PROTEIN 1;

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