Interplay of the E box, the cyclic AMP response element, and HTF4/HEB in transcriptional regulation of the neurospecific, neurotrophin-inducible vgf gene

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1244-1253

  Di Rocco, Giuliana ^a,c   Pennuto, Maria ^a   Illi, Barbara ^a   Canu, Nadia ^b   Filocamo, Gessica ^a,d   Trani, Eugenia ^a,e   Rinaldi, Anna Maria ^b   Possenti, Roberta ^b   Mandolesi, Georgia ^a   Sirinian, M Isabella ^a   Jucker, Richard ^a   Levi, Andrea ^b   Nasi, Sergio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Istituto Universitario S Raffaele   (Italy)

^d IRBM   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; FIBROBLAST; GENE INDUCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031036627     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.3.1244     Document Type: Article

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