Cloning of the novel human myeloid-cell-specific C/EBP-ε transcription factor

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1375-1386

  Chumakov, Alexey M ^a   Grillier, Isabelle ^a   Chumakova, Ekaterina ^a   Chih, Doris ^a   Slater, James ^a   Koeffler, H Phillip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL COUNT; CHICKEN; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TATA BOX;

GALLUS GALLUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0031018417     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.17.3.1375     Document Type: Article

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