Transcription factor interactions and chromatin modifications associated with p53-mediated, developmental repression of the alpha-fetoprotein gene

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2147-2157

  Nguyen, Thi T ^a   Cho, Kyucheol ^a   Stratton, Sabrina A ^a   Barton, Michelle Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; PROTEIN P53; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

ACETYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REPRESSOR GENE; RNA BINDING;

ACETYLATION; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-ALPHA; HEPATOCYTES; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; LIVER; METHYLATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 14844345317     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.6.2147-2157.2005     Document Type: Article

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