Transcriptional repression by the proximal exonic region at the human TERT gene

Gene

Volumn 486, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 65-73

  Wong, Terence C ^a   Sokol, Ethan S ^a   Schep, Alicia N ^a   Punjiya, Meera ^a   Tran, Diana A ^a   Allan, Divina ^a   Drewell, Robert A ^a  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cis Regulation; CTCF; Repressor; Telomerase; TERT; Transcription

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE SILENCING; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TELOMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84860413165     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2011.07.016     Document Type: Article

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