A single base difference between Pit-1 binding sites at the hGH promoter and locus control region specifies distinct Pit-1 conformations and functions

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 6535-6546

  Shewchuk, Brian M ^a,c   Ho, Yugong ^a   Liebhaber, Stephen A ^a   Cooke, Nancy E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA BASE; HISTONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HYPOPHYSIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; REGULATOR GENE;

ADENINE; ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CREB-BINDING PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PITUITARY GLAND; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RATS; THYMINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1;

EID: 33747758321     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00267-06     Document Type: Article

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