cDNA cloning and tissue-specific expression of a novel basic helix-loop-helix/PAS factor (Arnt2) with close sequence similarity to the aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator (Arnt)

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1706-1713

  Hirose, Ken ^a   Morita, Masanobu ^a   Ema, Masatsugu ^a   Mimura, Junsei ^a   Hamada, Hiroshi ^b,d   Fujii, Hideta ^b,d   Saijo, Yukio ^b,d   Gotoh, Osamu ^c   Sogawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Fujii Kuriyama, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR NUCLEAR TRANSLOCATOR; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; GENES, REPORTER; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0029928689     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.4.1706     Document Type: Article

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