Transcriptional and posttranscriptional silencing of rodent α1(I) collagen by a homologous transcriptionally self-silenced transgene

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 274-283

  Bahramian, Mohammad B ^a,c   Zarbl, Helmut ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c Vion Pharmaceuticals Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0032905930     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.1.274     Document Type: Article

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