Structure of the gene encoding the ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme Ubcm4, characterization of its promoter, and chromosomal location

Gene

Volumn 224, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 109-116

  Müller, Ursula ^a   Grams, Anja ^a   Martinez Noel, Gustavo ^a   Copeland, Neal G ^b   Gilbert, Debra J ^b   Jenkins, Nancy A ^b   Harbers, Klaus ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exon intron structure; Gene mapping; Mouse; Multiple transcripts; Ubiquitylation

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; RNA; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; INTERNALIZATION; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REPORTER GENE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TATA BOX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES; HUMANS; INTRONS; LIGASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURIDAE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYMES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032509330     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00515-0     Document Type: Article

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