Ets transcription factors regulate AIRE gene promoter

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 348, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 768-774

  Murumägi, Astrid ^a   Silvennoinen, Olli ^a   Peterson, Pärt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Autoimmune regulator (AIRE); ESE 1; Ets 1; Ets 2; Promoter; Transcription

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 2;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; FEMALE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-ETS-1; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-ETS-2; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-ETS; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33746928271     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.07.135     Document Type: Article

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