Two Pax-binding sites are required for early embryonic brain expression of an Engrailed-2 transgene

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 627-635

  Song, Dong Li ^a,b   Chalepakis, Georges ^c   Gruss, Peter ^c   Joyner, Alexandra L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; En; Enhancer; Evolution; lacZ; Mid hindbrain; Mouse; Pax; Regionalization; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOBOX; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0030039249     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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