Transcriptional regulation of the mouse αA-crystallin gene: Binding of USF to the -7/+5 region

Gene

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 209-216

  Sax, Christina M ^a   Cvekl, Ales ^a   Piatigorsky, Joram ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye lens; Gene expression; Recombinant DNA

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; ANTIBODY; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LENS EPITHELIUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRICETINAE; CRYSTALLINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; UPSTREAM STIMULATORY FACTORS;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; FELIS CATUS; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS TYPE 2;

EID: 0031045744     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00643-9     Document Type: Article

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