Requirement for cooperative interaction of interleukin-6 responsive element type 2 and glucocorticoid responsive element in the synergistic activation of mouse metallothionein-I gene by interleukin-6 and glucocorticoid

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 143-151

  Kasutani, Keiko ^a   Itoh, Norio ^a   Kanekiyo, Masako ^a   Muto, Norio ^a   Tanaka, Keiichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; METALLOTHIONEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE INDUCTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0031723210     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1998.8452     Document Type: Article

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