Cloning and characterization of the promoter region of human telomerase reverse transcriptase gene

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 826-830

  Horikawa, Izumi ^a   Cable, P LouAnn ^a   Afshari, Cynthia ^a   Barrett, J Carl ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEINS; RNA; TELOMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

EID: 0033558281     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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