Isolation and characterization of the human chromosomal gene for prostacyclin-stimulating factor

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 929-933

  Mizushima, Seiichi ^a   Sato, Hironori ^a   Negishi, Takaaki ^a   Koushima, Hiroko ^a   Okamoto, Atsushi ^a   Nii, Atsushi ^a   Hashimoto, Toshihiko ^b   Umeda, Fumio ^b   Nawata, Hajime ^b   Kanamori, Toshinori ^a  

^a MOCHIDA PHARMACEUTICAL CO   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exon intron structure; Genomic DNA; Promoter structure; Transcription initiation site

Indexed keywords

PROSTACYCLIN; PROSTACYCLIN STIMULATING FACTOR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; EXON; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE NUMBER; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 10544221238     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021508     Document Type: Article

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