Functional analysis of the OCA-B promoter

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 164, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 6372-6379

  Stevens, Sean ^a   Wang, Lu ^a,b   Roeder, Robert G ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Third Wave Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD40 ANTIGEN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0034660181     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.12.6372     Document Type: Article

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