The human hepatocyte growth factor receptor gene: Complete structural organization and promoter characterization

Gene

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 159-169

  Liu, Youhua ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

c met; Exon intron; Gene structure; HGF; Scatter factor

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SCATTER FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTO ONCOGENE; RECEPTOR GENE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENES; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; PROTO-ONCOGENES; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032541006     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00264-9     Document Type: Article

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