Characterization of the mouse genes for mitochondrial transcription factors B1 and B2

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-6

  Rantanen, Anja ^a   Gaspari, Martina ^a   Falkenberg, Maria ^a   Gustafsson, Claes M ^a   Larsson, Nils Göran ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR B1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR B2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; METAZOON; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SYNTENY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; METAZOA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0037245552     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00335-002-2218-z     Document Type: Article

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