Dual roles for Pax-6: A transcriptional repressor of lens fiber cell- specific β-crystallin genes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 5579-5586

  Duncan, Melinda K ^a   Haynes II, John I ^b,c   Cvekl, Ales ^b   Piatigorsky, Joram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CRYSTALLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHICKEN; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EYE MALFORMATION; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; LENS FIBER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0031840442     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.9.5579     Document Type: Article

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