Molecular cloning and functional characterization of the mouse mafB gene

Gene

Volumn 242, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 419-426

  Huang, Ke ^a   Serria, Mohamed S ^a   Nakabayashi, Hidekazu ^a   Nishi, Shinzo ^a   Sakai, Masaharu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Luciferase assay; mafB; MyoD; Oncogene; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MATERIALS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE V MAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOP CODON; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES; LUCIFERASES; MAFB TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOD PROTEIN; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033967956     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00500-4     Document Type: Article

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