Dyad Symmetry Within the Mouse 3′ IgH Regulatory Region Includes Two Virtually Identical Enhancers (Cα3′E and hs3)

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4780-4787

  Saleque, Shireen ^a   Singh, Mallika ^a   Little, Randall D ^a,b   Giannini, Sandra L ^a,c   Michaelson, Jennifer S ^a   Birshtein, Barbara K ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GENOME THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031569966     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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