Genomic structure of the human RBP56/hTAF(II)68 and FUS/TLS genes

Gene

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 191-198

  Morohoshi, Fumiko ^a   Ootsuka, Yoshiko ^a   Arai, Kyoko ^a   Ichikawa, Hitoshi ^a   Mitani, Sachiyo ^a   Munakata, Nobuo ^a   Ohki, Misao ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromosomal translocation; EWS gene; RNA binding protein; TFIID

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; SOLID TUMOR; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; EXONS; GENES; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN EWS; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN FUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TATA-BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032561520     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00463-6     Document Type: Article

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