Proximal promoter region is sufficient to regulate tissue-specific expression of UDP-galactose: Ceramide galactosyltransferase gene

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 757-765

  Yonemasu, Tomoko ^a   Nakahira, Kensuke ^a   Okumura, Syunichiro ^a   Kagawa, Tetsushi ^a   Espinosa De Los Monteros, Araceli ^b   De Vellis, Jean ^b   Ikenaka, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cis element; Gene expression; Promoter; UDP ceramide:galactose galactosyltransferase

Indexed keywords

CERAMIDE GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GALACTOSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REGULATOR; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; N-ACYLSPHINGOSINE GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GALACTOSE;

EID: 0032526362     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19980615)52:6<757::AID-JNR15>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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