The endogenous retroviral insertion in the human complement c4 gene modulates the expression of homologous genes by antisense inhibition

Immunogenetics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-9

  Schneider, P M ^a   Witzel Schlomp K ^a   Rittner, C ^a   Zhang, L ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

HERV; Heteroduplex RNA; Interferon ; Polymorphism; Retrovirus

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; GENE PRODUCT; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN HERV K; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; COMPLEMENT C4; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; L CELLS (CELL LINE); MICE; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RNA, ANTISENSE;

ANIMALIA; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0035092331     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510000288     Document Type: Article

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