Striking differences between the mouse and the human α-fetoprotein enhancers

Genomics

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 694-705

  Long, Lingyun ^a   Davidson, Jeffrey N ^a   Spear, Brett T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetoprotein; Deletion; Enhancer; FoxA; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CHICKEN OVALBUMIN UPSTREAM PROMOTER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOXA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE DELETION; HELA CELLS; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-ALPHA; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 1542613787     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2003.09.009     Document Type: Article

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