Cloning of mouse telomerase reverse transcriptase gene promoter and identification of proximal core promoter sequences essential for the expression of transgenes in cancer cells

Oncology Reports

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 377-382

  Si, Shao Yan ^a   Song, Shu Jun ^a   Zhang, Jian Zhong ^a   Liu, Jun Li ^a   Liang, Shuang ^a   Feng, Kai ^a   Zhao, Gang ^a   Tan, Xiao Qing ^a  

^a 306 HOSPITAL OF PLA   (China)

Author keywords

Cancer cells; Cloning; mTERT; Promoter

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENTEROTOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MICE; NEOPLASMS; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TELOMERASE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 79958193512     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.2011.1303     Document Type: Article

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