Inducible DNA-loop formation blocks transcriptional activation by an SV40 enhancer

EMBO Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 358-367

  Ameres, Stefan Ludwig ^a,b   Drueppel, Lars ^a   Pfleiderer, Klaus ^a   Schmidt, Andreas ^a   Hille, Wolfgang ^a   Berens, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Conditional gene regulation; Dimerizer; DNA loop formation; SV40 enhancer; Tet

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COVALENT BOND; DNA STRUCTURE; EFFECTOR CELL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); HELA CELLS; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EUKARYOTA; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 13444250972     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600531     Document Type: Article

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