A negative regulatory element in the rabbit 3′IgH chromosomal region

International Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 973-982

  Volgina, Veronica ^a,b   Yam, Pi Chen ^a   Knight, Katherine L ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

B cells; Gene regulation; Molecular biology; Rabbit; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; LUCIFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TATA BOX;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GENES, REGULATOR; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 23844466322     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxh280     Document Type: Article

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