Growth retardation and neonatal lethality in mice with a homozygous deletion in the C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 100-105

  Litingtung, Y ^a,b   Lawler, A M ^a   Sebald, S M ^a   Lee, E ^b   Gearhart, J D ^a   Westphal, H ^b   Corden, J L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CTD domain; Deletion mutants; Growth retardation; Rna polymerase II; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

HEPTAPEPTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CULTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CLONING VECTOR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DELETION MUTANT; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; LETHAL MUTANT; MOUSE; NEWBORN DEATH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHIMERA; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENES, LETHAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH DISORDERS; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; RNA POLYMERASE II; STEM CELLS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033058443     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050946     Document Type: Article

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