A low-affinity serum response element allows other transcription factors to activate inducible gene expression in cardiac myocytes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1841-1852

  Hines, Wirt A ^a   Thorburn, Jacqueline ^b   Thorburn, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SERUM RESPONSIVE ELEMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032980427     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.3.1841     Document Type: Article

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