Article
DRB4 promoter polymorphism in DR7 individuals: correlation with DRB4 pre-mRNA and mRNA levels.
Immunogenetics - 1 Jan 1997
Leën M P, Gorski J
Abstract excerpt
DRB genes encode proteins which play an important role in the immune response, and variation in their expression levels may be of functional immunological significance. To date, HLA class II gene promoter polymorphism has been analyzed almost exclusively in Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-transformed B-cell lines. While previous studies have established important paradigms with regard to the mechanisms in DRB gene...
Topics
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- Gene Expression Regulation
- HLA-DR Antigens
- HLA-DR7 Antigen
- HLA-DRB4 Chains
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- RNA Precursors
