Identification of an enhancer element in the estrogen receptor upstream region: Implications for regulation of ER transcription in breast cancer

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 158, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 25-36

  Cohn, Claudia S ^a   Sullivan, Julia Ann ^a   Kiefer, Todd ^a   Hill, Steven M ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

(MCF 7 breast cancer cells); (MDA MB 231 breast cancer cells); Breast cancer; Enhancer; Estrogen receptor; Steroid receptors

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BREAST CANCER; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, NEOPLASM; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FEMALE; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032694065     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(99)00187-2     Document Type: Article

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