Regulation of the human HBA genes by KLF4 in erythroid cell lines

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 748-758

  Marini, M Giuseppina ^a   Porcu, Loredana ^a   Asunis, Isadora ^a   Loi, M Giuseppina ^a   Ristaldi, M Serafina ^a   Porcu, Susanna ^a   Ikuta, Tohru ^b   Cao, Antonio ^a   Moi, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

globin gene; Erythroid regulation; GKLF; HBA gene expression; KLF4; Krueppel like factors; ShRNA

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DOWN-REGULATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ERYTHROID CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HEMOGLOBIN A; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 77952662441     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2010.08130.x     Document Type: Article

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