Article
A factor discriminating between the wild-type and a mutant polyomavirus enhancer.
Nature - 1 Jan 2000
Kovesdi I, Satake M, Furukawa K, Reichel R, Ito Y, Nevins J R
Abstract excerpt
Enhancers increase the frequency of transcription initiation from linked promoter elements, most probably as a result of the binding of specific proteins to the enhancer. The polyomavirus early region is expressed in differentiated mouse cells but not in undifferentiated embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells. This host range is a function of the enhancer because polyomavirus mutants selected for growth in EC cells have...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Binding Sites
- Cell Line
- DNA, Recombinant
- DNA, Viral
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic
- Genes, Regulator
- Mutation
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
- Polyomavirus
- Proteins
