Ini, a small nuclear protein that enhances the response of the connexin43 gene to estrogen

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3148-3158

  Oltra, Elisa ^a   Pfeifer, Ingrid ^a   Werner, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN AF1; PROTEIN AF2; PROTEIN INI; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TATA BOX;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL NUCLEUS; CONNEXIN 43; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; COS CELLS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; UP-REGULATION; UTERUS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0037972943     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2002-0176     Document Type: Article

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