Lipopolysaccharide-inducible binding of nuclear proteins to the 5'-upstream regulatory region in Bombyx mori lebocin genes

Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 289-294

  Furukawa, Seiichi ^a   Shono, Toshio ^a   Tanaka, Hiromitsu ^b   Nakazawa, Hiroshi ^b   Ishibashi, Jun ^b   Yamakawa, Minoru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

antibacterial peptide; electrophoretic mobility shift assay; NF k; nuclear proteins

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041364858     PISSN: 00372455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11416/kontyushigen1930.68.289     Document Type: Article

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