Dual tandem promoter elements containing CCAC-like motifs from the tetrodotoxin-resistant voltage-sensitive Na+ channel (rSkM2) gene can independently drive muscle-specific transcription in L6 cells

Gene Expression

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 85-103

  Zhang, Hui ^a   Maldonado, Michelle N ^a   Barchi, Robert L ^a   Kallen, Roland G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cis Element; Electrophoresis mobility shift analysis; Expression; L6 myotubes; Skeletal muscle; Sodium channel

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MYOTUBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; SODIUM CHANNELS; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032705484     PISSN: 10522166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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