BRCA1 can stimulate gene transcription by a unique mechanism

EMBO Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 260-265

  Nadeau, Guy ^a   Boufaied, Nadia ^a   Moisan, Annie ^a   Lemieux, Karine M ^a   Cayanan, Charmagne ^b   Monteiro, Alvaro N A ^b,c   Gaudreau, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b STRANG CANCER PREVENTION CENTER   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MDM2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN MDM2; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REPORTER GENE; TATA BOX; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UPREGULATION; YEAST;

BRCA1 PROTEIN; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, P53; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MDM2; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TATA BOX; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UP-REGULATION; YEASTS;

EID: 0034278465     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvd059     Document Type: Article

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