IFN Regulatory Factor-1 Plays a Central Role in the Regulation of the Expression of Class I and II MHC Genes in Vivo

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 4260-4269

  Hobart, Michael ^a   Ramassar, Vido ^a   Goes, Nelson ^a   Urmson, Joan ^a   Halloran, Philip F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 1; IRF1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; MHC CLASS II TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; OXAZOLONE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR; RECOMBINANT GAMMA INTERFERON; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, MHC CLASS I; GENES, MHC CLASS II; INFLAMMATION; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR-1; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERFERON-GAMMA, RECOMBINANT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OXAZOLONE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0031136958     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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