Transcriptional Downregulation by Nucleotide Substitution with the Minor Allele of rs3760776 Located in the Promoter of FUT6 Gene

Biochemical Genetics

Volumn 53, Issue 4-6, 2015, Pages 72-78

  Ryoo, Hyunju ^a   Ryu, Jihye ^a   Lee, Chaeyoung ^a  

^a Soongsil University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Electrophoretic mobility shift assay; FUT6; N glycan; Promoter activity; Single nucleotide variant

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE 6; NUCLEAR FACTOR; NUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUT6 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; DOWN-REGULATION; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; NUCLEOTIDES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84929958159     PISSN: 00062928     EISSN: 15734927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10528-015-9673-1     Document Type: Article

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