Th2-specific protein/DNA interactions at the proximal nuclear factor-AT site contribute to the functional activity of the human IL-4 promoter

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1380-1389

  Li Weber, Min ^a   Salgame, Padmini ^b   Hu, Chenggang ^b   Davydov, Ilia V ^c   Laur, Oskar ^a   Klevenz, Sibylle ^a   Krammer, Peter H ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 4; NUCLEAR FACTOR;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONE CELLS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HOST CELL FACTOR C1; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-4; IONOMYCIN; JURKAT CELLS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-1; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-2; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; TH2 CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032146036     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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