Expression of the H2-Ea gene is modulated by a polymorphic transcriptional enhancer

Immunogenetics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 266-272

  Janitz, Michal ^a   Reiners Schramm, Luzie ^a   Lauster, Roland ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES RHEUMA FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

MHC class II; Mouse; Promoter region; Sequence polymorphism; Transcriptional enhancer

Indexed keywords

DNA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPLOTYPE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, MHC CLASS II; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031669202     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050431     Document Type: Article

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