Molecular cloning of a novel human gene encoding histone acetyltransferase-like protein involved in transcriptional activation of hTERT

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 311, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 506-513

  Lv, Junjie ^a   Liu, Haijing ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Tang, Zhiwei ^a   Hou, Lin ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Expression regulation; Histone acetyltransferase; hTERT; N acetyltransferase; Yeast one hybrid

Indexed keywords

HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HUMAN N ACETYLTRANSFERASE LIKE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TELOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HALP GENE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 0242362808     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.09.235     Document Type: Article

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