Yin Yang 1 contains G-quadruplex structures in its promoter and 5′-UTR and its expression is modulated by G4 resolvase 1

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1033-1049

  Huang, Weiwei ^a,b   Smaldino, Philip J ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Miller, Lance D ^a   Cao, Paul ^a   Stadelman, Kristin ^a   Wan, Meimei ^a   Giri, Banabihari ^a   Lei, Ming ^b   Nagamine, Yoshikuni ^c   Vaughn, James P ^a   Akman, Steven A ^a   Sui, Guangchao ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX RESOLVASE 1; LUCIFERASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RESOLVASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YY1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPORTER GENE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATIONS, MONOVALENT; CELL LINE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DNA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; FEMALE; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINASES; RNA; YY1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84863116846     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr849     Document Type: Article

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