A point mutation in a silencer module reduces the promoter activity for the human mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1680, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 176-184

  Nagahara, Noriyuki ^a   Sreeja, V G ^a   Li, Qing ^a   Shimizu, Takako ^a   Tsuchiya, Terumasa ^b   Fujii Kuriyama, Yoshiaki ^c  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Res Ctr for Molec Medical Science   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cap site hunting; Dual luciferase assay; Mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase; Silencer

Indexed keywords

3 MERCAPTOPYRUVATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE; SULFURTRANSFERASE; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SILENCER ELEMENT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; LIVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SULFURTRANSFERASES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 7044234616     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbaexp.2004.09.007     Document Type: Article

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