Characterization of Oct2 from the channel catfish: Functional preference for a variant octamer motif

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3874-3882

  Ross, David A ^a   Magor, Bradley G ^a,c   Middleton, Darlene L ^a   Wilson, Melanie R ^b   Miller, Norman W ^b   Clem, L William ^b   Warr, Gregory W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CATFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA PROBES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; ICTALURIDAE; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-2; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032522464     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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