Structure and promoter activity of the human glia maturation factor-gamma gene: A TATA-less, GC-rich and bidirectional promoter

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1625, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 246-252

  Kawai, Yoko ^a,b   Asai, Kiyofumi ^b   Miura, Yutaka ^b   Inoue, Yuichiro ^c   Yamamoto, Manami ^b   Moriyama, Akihiko ^a   Yamamoto, Naoki ^b   Kato, Taiji ^b  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 RACE; Bidirectional promoter; Human glia maturation factor gamma; Primer extension; Promoter regulation

Indexed keywords

GLIA MATURATION FACTOR; LUCIFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AML 1A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LYF 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; RAT; REPORTER GENE; START CODON; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 0037456154     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(02)00627-9     Document Type: Article

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