Four Conserved Promoter Motifs Regulate Transcription of the Gene Encoding Human Complement Component C2

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 5868-5873

  Sullivan, Kathleen E ^a,b  

^a Dept of Pathol   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C2; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT CLASSICAL PATHWAY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COMPLEMENT C2; COMPLEMENT PATHWAY, CLASSICAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0031570537     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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