ZBTB20 is a sequence-specific transcriptional repressor of alpha-fetoprotein gene

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Hai ^a   Cao, Dongmei ^a   Zhou, Luting ^a   Zhang, Ye ^a   Guo, Xiaoqin ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Chen, Yuxia ^a   Spear, Brett T ^b   Wu, Jia Wei ^c   Xie, Zhifang ^a   Zhang, Weiping J ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; DNA; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZBTB20 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HEP-G2 CELL LINE; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIVER; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPORTER GENE;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENES, REPORTER; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMANS; LIVER; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84954304750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11979     Document Type: Article

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