Cloning and Characterization of the Human Recombination Activating Gene 1 (RAG1) and RAG2 Promoter Regions

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 4382-4394

  Zarrin, Ali A ^a   Fong, Ivan ^b   Malkin, Lilia ^a   Marsden, Philip A ^b,d   Berinstein, Neil L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Toronto Sunnybrook Cancer Ctr S   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; V(D)J RECOMBINATION ACTIVATING PROTEIN 2;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, RAG-1; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 0031279369     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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