Cloning of the human twist gene: Its expression is retained in adult mesodermally-derived tissues

Gene

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 83-92

  Wang, Sherry M ^a   Coljee, Vincent W ^a   Pignolo, Robert J ^a   Rotenberg, Mitch O ^a   Cristofalo, Vincent J ^a   Sierra, Felipe ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Genomic DNA; Helix loop helix; Tissue specific expression; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS NUCLEASE S1; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HUMANS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 0031046540     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00727-5     Document Type: Article

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