Predominant expression of alternative PAX3 and PAX7 forms in myogenic and neural tumor cell lines

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 5443-5448

  Barr, Frederic G ^a   Fitzgerald, Julie C ^a   Ginsberg, Jill P ^a,b   Vanella, Michelle L ^a   Davis, Richard J ^a,b   Bennicelli, Jeannette L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; EWING SARCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROBLASTOMA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PAX7 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PLASMIDS; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; RNA, MESSENGER; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033229844     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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