Mouse Mef2b Gene: Unique Member of MEF2 Gene Family

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 939-946

  Morisaki, Takayuki ^a   Sermsuvitayawong, Kannika ^a   Byun, Sang Hyun ^a   Matsuda, Yoichi ^b   Hidaka, Kyoko ^a   Morisaki, Hiroko ^a   Mukai, Tsunehiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Differentiation; Gene; MEF2; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MEF2B PROTEIN, MOUSE; MYOCYTE SPECIFIC ENHANCER BINDING FACTOR 2; MYOCYTE-SPECIFIC ENHANCER-BINDING FACTOR 2; MYOGENIC FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; HEART; INTRON; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN VARIANT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME MAP; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MURIDAE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TERATOCARCINOMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MURIDAE; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TERATOCARCINOMA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031263037     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021855     Document Type: Article

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