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During a study on the regulation of interferon-i genes in choriocarcinoma cells, an hCGa-CAT construct was included as an internal control to check transfection efficiencies. Although Oct-3/4 coexpression had little effect on expression from an IFN-ti promoter that carried several potential Oct binding sequences, the hCGa-CAT construct was strongly silenced. This serendipitous discovery led to the data reported in this chapter and two earlier papers (1,2).
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Liu, L., Leaman, D., Roberts, R.M. (1999). Possible Role of the Transcription Factor Oct-3/4 in Control of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Expression. In: Carson, D.D. (eds) Embryo Implantation. Proceedings in the Serono Symposia USA Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1548-6_22
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