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From: NOS2polymorphisms associated with the susceptibility to pulmonary arterial hypertension with systemic sclerosis: contribution to the transcriptional activity

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A schematic construct of the promoterless pGL3-basic vector. The luciferase vector (pGL3) was inserted with variable numbers of CCTTT repeats and the 1.5 kb minimal human NOS2 promoter region (-1,557 to +58 bp). The promoter region contained either T or G at -1026 bp (referred to as pGL3-T and pGL3-G, respectively). Each vector of pGL3-T and pGL3-G had allele G and allele A at -277 bp, respectively. The 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 repeats of the pentanucleotide (CCTTT) region were obtained by PCR. The resulting constructs were named pGL3-T6, pGL3-G6, pGL3-T8, pGL3-G8, pGL3-T10, pGL3-G10, pGL3-T12, pGL3-G12, pGL3-T14 and pGL3-G14 and contain 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 repeats, respectively. bp, base pairs; kb, kilobases; SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism; VNTR, variable numbers of tandem repeat.

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