The activity of the murine Bax promoter is regulated by Sp1/3 and E-box binding proteins but not by p53

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 873-882

  Schmidt, Thorsten ^d   Körner, Kathrin ^b   Karsunky, Holger ^d   Korsmeyer, Stanley ^a   Müller, Rolf ^b   Möröy, Tarik ^c  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bax; In vivo footprinting; p53

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN P53; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DEATH; DNA FOOTPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; THYMOCYTE; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0344980250     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400562     Document Type: Article

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