Zinc finger protein ZBTB20 is a key repressor of alpha-fetoprotein gene transcription in liver

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 31, 2008, Pages 10859-10864

  Xie, Zhifang ^a   Zhang, Hai ^a   Tsai, Wenwei ^b   Zhang, Ye ^a   Du, Yu ^a   Zhong, Jigen ^a   Szpirer, Claude ^c   Zhu, Minghua ^d   Cao, Xuetao ^a   Barton, Michelle Craig ^b   Grusby, Michael J ^e   Zhang, Weiping J ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Transcription factor; Transcriptional repressor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; PROTEIN ZBTB20; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER; LIVER CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEPATOCYTES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 49449094011     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0800647105     Document Type: Article

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