CTCF is essential for up-regulating expression from the amyloid precursor protein promoter during differentiation of primary hippocampal neurons

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2286-2298

  Yang, Yaxiong ^a   Quitschke, Wolfgang W ^b   Vostrov, Alexander A ^b   Brewer, Gregory J ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloid precursor protein promoter; CTCF; Rat hippocampal neuron; Synaptogenesis; Transcription; USF

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROFILAMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; TRIXIS;

EID: 0032755005     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1999.0732286.x     Document Type: Article

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