Functional analysis of a promoter variant of the gene encoding the interferon-gamma receptor chain I

Immunogenetics

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 675-680

  Jüliger, Simone ^a   Bongartz, Martina ^a,b   Luty, Adrian J F ^a,b   Kremsner, Peter G ^a,b   Kun, Jürgen F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

Author keywords

Activator protein 4; Human interferon receptor; IFN binding chain I; Malaria; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERFERON GAMMA RECEPTOR CHAIN 1; LUCIFERASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CETS1P54; PROTEIN IKAROS 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ACTIVATOR PROTEIN 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN MALARIA; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA VECTOR; EXON; GABON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEREDITY; HOST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MALARIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STEM CELL;

EID: 0037272141     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-002-0516-y     Document Type: Article

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