Functional elements in the minimal promoter of the human proton-coupled folate transporter

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 388, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-85

  Stark, Michal ^a   Gonen, Nitzan ^a   Assaraf, Yehuda G ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Folates; Gene expression; Hereditary folate malabsorption; Promoter; Transport

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; LUCIFERASE; PROTON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YY1;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; YY1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 68949159799     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.07.116     Document Type: Article

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