An antisilencer element is involved in the transcriptional regulation of the human vimentin gene

Gene

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 111-120

  Izmailova, Elena S ^a   Zehner, Zendra E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Factor modification; HeLa; Intermediate filaments; MCF 7; MDA MB 231 cells

Indexed keywords

VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; GENE ACTIVITY; HELA CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SILENCER GENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELL LINE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VIMENTIN;

MINK CELL FOCUS-FORMING VIRUS;

EID: 0033119153     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00046-3     Document Type: Article

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