An octamer-binding site is crucial for the activity of an enhancer active at the embryonic met-/mesencephalic junction

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 55-67

  Mihailescu, Dan ^a   Kury, Patrick ^b   Monard, Denis ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior posterior axis; Brn 1; Brn 2; Brn 4; Development; DNA sequence ocular motor nerve; Electrophoretic mobility shift assay; Enhancer; Expression pattern; FGF 8; Gene expression; Gene regulation; In situ hybridization; Isthmic organizer; LacZ; Mesencephalon; Met mesencephalic junction; Metencephalon; Mouse; Nervous system; Neural tube; Oct 1; Oct 2; Oct 6; Octamer site; POU transcription factor; Promoter; Protease inhibitor; Protease Nexin 1; Segmental border; Serine protease; Transcriptional regulation; Transfection; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOST CELL FACTOR C1; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-1; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032779946     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00067-2     Document Type: Article

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