A 150-Base Pair 5′ Region of the MHC Class I HLA-B7 Gene Is Sufficient to Direct Tissue-Specific Expression and Locus Control Region Activity: The α Site Determines Efficient Expression and in Vivo Occupancy at Multiple cis-Active Sites Throughout This Region

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4913-4929

  Kushida, Michelle M ^a   Dey, Anup ^b   Zhang, Xiao Li ^a   Campbell, Jodie ^a   Heeney, Matthew ^a   Carlyle, James ^a   Ganguly, Subinay ^c   Ozato, Keiko ^b   Vasavada, Haren ^d   Chamberlain, John W ^a,e  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^d BAYER CORPORATION   (United States)

^e HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA B7 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HLA-B7 ANTIGEN; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PREGNANCY; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0031573138     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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