A complex enhancer of the chicken βA3/A1-crystallin gene depends on an AP-1-CRE element for activity

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 951-959

  McDermott, Joan B ^a   Cvekl, Aleš ^a   Piatigorsky, Joram ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

crystallins; AP 1; CREB; enhancer; gene regulation; lens

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; DNA TRANSFECTION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LENS EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CRYSTALLINS; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; EPITHELIUM; FIBROBLASTS; GENES, REGULATOR; GENES, REPORTER; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; PLASMIDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0030899769     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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