Localization of regulatory protein binding sites in the proximal region of human myometrial connexin 43 gene

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 757-766

  Echetebu, Clement O ^a   Ali, Mariam ^a   Izban, Michael G ^a   MacKay, Lynnete ^a   Garfield, Robert E ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

AP1; Connexin 43; Myometrium; Promoter; Sp1

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; NUCLEOPROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MYOMETRIUM; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; GENES, JUN; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOMETRIUM; PLASMIDS; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0032769955     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/5.8.757     Document Type: Article

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