Isolation and functional analysis of alternative promoters in the human aquaporin-4 water channel gene

Genomics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 373-377

  Umenishi, Fuminori ^a   Verkman, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE ISOLATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032526765     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5337     Document Type: Article

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