. . . . . . . . . . . . "[Preliminary studies using plasmid vectors demonstrated that: (i) the 5'-flanking sequences from the CFTR gene have low promoter activity in the human airway epithelial cell lines; (ii) chimeras using -718 bp fragment from the 5'-flanking sequence of CFTR gene as the base, with the addition of 4-10 units of a 25-bp sequence containing the CRE consensus sequence, were all inducible by a rise in intracellular cAMP, with the chimera having eight CRE repeats the most responsive; and (iii) a CF126(CRE8) chjimera, consisting of the -126 bp fragment from the 5'-flanking region of CFTR gene together with eight CRE repeats, yielded low-level basal activity but maximal upregulation by cAMP, resulting in expression of the reporter gene that was 51-58% of an RSV-LTR control.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2016-02-19"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2016-05-13T12:52:03+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v4.0.0.0" . "v4.0.0" .