The 'zinc knuckle' motif of Early B cell Factor is required for transcriptional activation of B cell-specific genes

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3786-3796

  Fields, Scott ^a   Ternyak, Kristina ^a   Gao, Hua ^b   Ostraat, Rachel ^a   Akerlund, Janie ^a   Hagman, James ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA binding specificity; Early B cell Factor (EBF); mb 1 promoter; Vpreb1 promoter; Zinc binding motif

Indexed keywords

B CELL ACTIVATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; ZINC BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIGHT CHAIN; MB 1 GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VPREB1 GENE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINE; GENETIC VECTORS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMACYTOMA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETROVIRIDAE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 48049095210     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2008.05.018     Document Type: Article

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