Downstream E-box-mediated regulation of the human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) gene transcription: Evidence for an endogenous mechanism of transcriptional repression

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2585-2597

  Horikawa, Izumi ^a   Cable, P LouAnn ^a   Mazur, Sharlyn J ^a   Appella, Ettore ^a   Afshari, Cynthia A ^a   Barrett, J Carl ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MAD1; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL AGING; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 3; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; E BOX; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; ONCOGENE C MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; E-BOX ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0036677419     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E01-11-0107     Document Type: Article

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