Cloning and characterization of the Human PAX7 promoter

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 381, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 331-335

  Murmann, Omar V ^a   Niggli, Felix ^a   Schäfer, Beat W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Myogenesis; PAX genes; Transcription factor; Tumor development

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TUMOR CELL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034113295     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2000.043     Document Type: Article

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