Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in lymphocyte progenitors: Insight from an analysis of the terminal transferase promoter

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 64, Issue , 1999, Pages 87-97

  Ernst, P ^a   Hahm, K ^a   Cobb, B S ^a   Brown, K E ^b,d   Trinh, L A ^a   McCarty, A S ^a   Merkenschlager, M ^b   Klug, C A ^c   Fisher, A G ^b   Smale, S T ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d Royal Society ^*

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFERASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; IKAROS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; LUCIFERASE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; HETEROCHROMATIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLYMPHOCYTE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DNA PROBE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOID CELL LINE; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELL; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0033504720     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1999.64.87     Document Type: Conference Paper

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