Changing transcription start sites in H-type α(1,2)fucosyltransferase gene (FUT1) during differentiation of the human erythroid lineage

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 379-387

  Koda, Yoshiro ^a   Soejima, Mikiko ^a   Kimura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ABO; Differentiation; Erythroid linease; Fucosyltransferase; FUT1

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL STRAIN K 562; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROLEUKEMIA CELL; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ERYTHROID PROGENITOR CELLS; EXONS; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0031694958     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2560379.x     Document Type: Article

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