Transcriptional regulation of the murine Presenilin-2 gene reveals similarities and differences to its human orthologue

Gene

Volumn 446, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 81-89

  Ounallah Saad, Hadile ^a,c   Beeri, Rachel ^a   Goshen, Inbal ^b   Yirmiya, Raz ^b   Renbaum, Paul ^a   Levy Lahad, Ephrat ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Egr 1; Fear conditioning; Mouse; Presenilin; Promoter; Sp1

Indexed keywords

EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; PREGNANCY SPECIFIC BETA1 GLYCOPROTEIN; PRESENILIN 2;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA PRIMERS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EXONS; FEAR; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PRESENILIN-2; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 68949157251     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2009.06.015     Document Type: Article

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