A new cis element is involved in the HER2 gene overexpression in human breast cancer cells

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2527-2531

  Grooteclaes, Madeleine ^a   Vernimmen, Douglas ^a   Plaza, Serge ^c   Pasleau, Françoise ^b   Hodzic, Didier ^a   Winkler Gol, Rosita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTO ONCOGENE; RECEPTOR BINDING; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; GENES, ERBB-2; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033153335     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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