Isolation and functional characterisation of the promoter region of the human prion protein gene

Gene

Volumn 268, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 105-114

  Mahal, Sukhvir P ^a   Asante, Emmanuel A ^a   Antoniou, Michael ^b   Collinge, John ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Expression; Prion disease; Regulatory elements

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; DNA; LUCIFERASE; PRION PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE CULTURE CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXONS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PRPC PROTEINS; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035795677     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00424-3     Document Type: Article

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