Transcription factor Egr-1 activity down-regulates Fas and CD23 expression in B cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2678-2684

  Dinkel, Adelheid ^a,b   Aicher, Wilhelm K ^a   Haas, Christian ^a   Zipfel, Peter F ^c   Peter, Hans Hartmut ^a   Eibel, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; EGR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; FAS ANTIGEN; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY;

ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, IGE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0031571794     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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