Non-Killer Cell-Specific Transcription Factors Silence the Perforin Promoter

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1734-1741

  Zhang, Yange ^a,b   Lichtenheld, Mathias G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PERFORIN; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; KILLER CELL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; KILLER CELLS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031568648     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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