Designed transcription factors as tools for therapeutics and functional genomics

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 64, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 919-923

  Urnov, Fyodor D ^a   Rebar, Edward J ^a  

^a SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Mammal; Theraputics; Transcription; Zinc finger protein

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 3; ERYTHROPOIETIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DRUG DESIGN; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; REPRESSOR GENE;

DRUG DESIGN; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0036710478     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-2952(02)01150-4     Document Type: Article

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