Identification of NFI-binding sites and cloning of NFI-cDNAs suggest a regulatory role for NFI transcription factors in olfactory neuron gene expression

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-79

  Baumeister, Hans ^a   Gronostajski, Richard M ^b,c   Lyons, Gary E ^d   Margolis, Frank L ^e  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Mobility shift assay; Nuclear Factor I; Olfactory gene promoter; Olfactory receptor neuron; Upstream binding element

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR FACTOR I; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NFI TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032829547     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(99)00210-7     Document Type: Article

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