Tumor-specific PAX3-FKHR transcription factor, but not PAX3, activates the platelet-derived growth factor alpha receptor

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 4118-4130

  Epstein, Jonathan A ^a   Song, Baoliang ^b   Lakkis, Maha ^a   Wang, Chiayeng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 13; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 2; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; TRANSACTIVATION;

EID: 0031861728     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.7.4118     Document Type: Article

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