Identification of an evolutionarily conserved 110 base-pair cis-acting regulatory sequence that governs Wnt-1 expression in the murine neural plate

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2735-2746

  Rowitch, David H ^a,b,e   Echelard, Yann ^c   Danielian, Paul S ^a,f   Gellner, Klaus ^d,g   Brenner, Sydney ^d   McMahon, Andrew P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Genzyme Transgenics Corporation   (United States)

^d The Molecular Sciences Institute   (United States)

^e DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^g Inst F Spezielle Zool E   (Germany)

Author keywords

CNS; Gene regulation; Mouse; Neural plate; Transgene; Wnt

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISH; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; WNT1 PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TETRAODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031858210     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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