CD40 ligation and IL-4 use different mechanisms of transcriptional activation of the human lymphotoxin α promoter in B cells

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 901-906

  Worm, Margitta M ^a,b   Tsytsykova, Alla ^a   Geha, Raif S ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CD40; IL 4; Lymphotoxin ; NF B; STAT

Indexed keywords

CD40 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 4; LYMPHOTOXIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIGATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANTIGENS, CD40; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-4; LYMPHOTOXIN-ALPHA; NF-KAPPA B; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031881907     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199803)28:03<901::AID-IMMU901>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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