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Transcriptional activation of the utrophin promoter B by a constitutively active Ets-transcription factor.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Feb 2003
Briguet Alexandre, Bleckmann Dorothee, Bettan Mickaël, Mermod Nicolas, Meier Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is an X-linked genetic disease caused by the absence of functional dystrophin. Pharmacological upregulation of utrophin, the autosomal homologue of dystrophin, offers a potential therapeutic approach to treat Duchenne patients. Full-length utrophin mRNA is transcribed from two alternative promoters, called A and B. In contrast to the utrophin promoter A, little is known about the...
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