The cooperation between two silencers creates an enhancer element that controls both the lens-preferred and the differentiation stage-specific expression of the rat βB2-crystallin gene

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 239, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-32

  Dirks, Ron P H ^a   Kraft, Harry J ^a   Van Genesen, Siebe T ^a   Klok, Erik J ^a   Pfundt, Rolph ^a   Schoenmakers, John G G ^a   Lubsen, Nicolette H ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crystallin; Fibroblast growth factor; Lens differentiation

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BETA CRYSTALLIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LENS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030003927     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0023u.x     Document Type: Article

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