Regulatory elements in the promoter of a murine TCRD V gene segment

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 791-804

  Kienker, Laura J ^a   Ghosh, Maya R ^b   Tucker, Philip W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOGENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL EXTRACTS; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GATA3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, DELTA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TATA BOX; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032528514     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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