Functional analysis of the promoters of the human red and green visual pigment genes

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 885-896

  Shaaban, Salam A ^a   Deeb, Samir S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RETINOBLASTOMA; TATA BOX; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REGULATOR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RETINOBLASTOMA; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031976811     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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