Interaction and functional interference of C/EBPβ with octamer factors in immunoglobulin gene transcription

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 174-184

  Hatada, Eunice N ^a   Chen Kiang, Selina ^b   Scheidereit, Claus ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

C EBP interaction with Oct 1 Oct 2; Essential C EBP element; Immunoglobulin promoter; Transcriptional activation; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HELA CELLS; HOST CELL FACTOR C1; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-1; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-2; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033989910     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200001)30:1<174::AID-IMMU174>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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