Octamer and sox elements are required for transcriptional cis regulation of Nanog gene expression

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2475-2485

  Kuroda, Takao ^a   Tada, Masako ^a,b   Kubota, Hiroshi ^a   Kimura, Hironobu ^a   Hatano, Shin Ya ^a   Suemori, Hirofumi ^a   Nakatsuji, Norio ^a   Tada, Takashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ReproCELL Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL EXTRACT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME ASSAY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

5' FLANKING REGION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HMGB PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SEQUENCE DELETION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 14844359620     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.6.2475-2485.2005     Document Type: Article

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