FKLF, a novel Kruppel-like factor that activates human embryonic and fetal β-like globin genes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 3571-3579

  Asano, Haruhiko ^a   Li, Xi Susan ^a   Stamatoyannopoulos, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 AMINOLEVULINATE SYNTHASE; FERROCHELATASE; GLOBIN; GLYCOPHORIN B; PORPHOBILINOGEN DEAMINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; KLF11 PROTEIN, HUMAN; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REPORTER GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GLOBINS; HUMANS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0032588399     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.5.3571     Document Type: Article

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