Identification of a cell type-specific silencer in the first exon of the His-1 gene

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 615-624

  Xu, Fan ^a   Paquette, Alice J ^b   Anderson, David J ^b   Charalambous, Andreas ^a   Askew, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choroid plexus; Gene regulation; HIS 1; Oncogene; Promoter; Silencer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SILENCER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

MURINAE;

EID: 0033972145     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4644(20000315)76:4<615::AID-JCB10>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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