Molecular cloning of the promoter of the gene encoding the Rhesus monkey β-amyloid precursor protein: Structural characterization and a comparative study with other species

Gene

Volumn 217, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 151-164

  Song, Weihong ^a   Lahiri, Debomoy K ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid precursor protein; APP promoter; Gene regulation; Genomic screening; Primate; Primer extension; S1 nuclease mapping; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CODON; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RAT; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHESUS MONKEY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, ORGANISM; CODON; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032517141     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00337-0     Document Type: Article

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