Linear distance from the locus control region determines ε-globin transcriptional activity

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 5664-5672

  Shimotsuma, Motoshi ^a   Matsuzaki, Hitomi ^a   Tanabe, Osamu ^b   Campbell, Andrew D ^b   Engel, James Douglas ^b   Fukamizu, Akiyoshi ^a   Tanimoto, Keiji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DNA; EPSILON GLOBIN; GAMMA GLOBIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EKLF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS; ENHANCER REGION; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; GLOBINS; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 34547913042     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00602-07     Document Type: Article

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