The ERV-9 LTR enhancer is not blocked by the HS5 insulator and synthesizes through the HS5 site non-coding, long RNAs that regulate LTR enhancer function

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 4582-4596

  Ling, Jianhua ^a   Pi, Wenhu ^a   Yu, Xiuping ^a   Bengra, Chikh ^a   Long, Qiaoming ^a   Jin, Huaqian ^a   Seyfang, Andreas ^a   Tuan, Dorothy ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GLOBIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN K 562; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RETROVIRUS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSACTIVATION;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GLOBINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0042161841     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg646     Document Type: Article

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