Activation of the early B-cell-specific mb-1 (Ig-α) gene by Pax-5 is dependent on an unmethylated Ets binding site

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1946-1960

  Maier, Holly ^b   Colbert, Jeff ^b   Fitzsimmons, Daniel ^b   Clark, Dawn R ^b   Hagman, James ^a  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN MB 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMACYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD79; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BINDING SITES; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL LINEAGE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PLASMA CELLS; PLASMACYTOMA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-ETS-1; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-ETS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0037370442     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.6.1946-1960.2003     Document Type: Article

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