A conserved quadruplex motif located in a transcription activation site of the human c-kit oncogene

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 7854-7860

  Fernando, Himesh ^a   Reszka, Anthony P ^b   Huppert, Julian ^a   Ladame, Sylvain ^a   Rankin, Sarah ^b   Venkitaraman, Ashok R ^c   Neidle, Stephen ^b   Balasubramanian, Shankar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ENZYMES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TUMORS;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM (CD); GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS (GIST); POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION;

GENES;

IMATINIB; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHIMPANZEE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE C KIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RAT; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; ONCOGENES; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RATS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 33746908213     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0601510     Document Type: Article

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