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When the Brain Yearns for Oxygen
20 Dec 2019
Abstract excerpt
Nearly 30 years ago hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) was described as a protein complex bound to regulatory DNA sequences termed hypoxia response elements because HIF binding induced transcription of the erythropoietin gene under hypoxia. However, it soon became clear that HIF is part of a ubiquitous cellular oxygen sensing system, which ensures finely tuned control of HIF abundance and activity in dependence of...
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