Cux/CDP homeoprotein is a component of NF-μNR and represses the immunoglobulin heavy chain intronic enhancer by antagonizing the bright transcription activator

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 284-295

  Wang, Zhiyong ^a,d   Goldstein, Adrian ^a   Zong, Rui Ting ^b   Danjun, Lin ^b   Neufeld, Ellis J ^c   Scheuermann, Richard H ^a   Tucker, Philip W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENHANCER REGION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TARGET CELL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032906459     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.1.284     Document Type: Article

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