Expression of the Murine CD21 Gene Is Regulated by Promoter and Intronic Sequences

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4758-4768

  Hu, Heping ^a   Martin, Brian K ^a,b   Weis, Janis J ^a   Weis, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRONS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, COMPLEMENT 3D; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031570039     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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