A conserved 30 base pair element in the Wnt-5a promoter is sufficient both to drive its' early embryonic expression and to mediate its' repression by otx2

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 85, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 97-102

  Morgan, Richard ^a   Hooiveld, Michiel H W ^a   Der Reiden, Paul In ^a   Durston, Antony J ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

LacZ gene; Wnt 5a promoter; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LAC OPERON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033166974     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00091-X     Document Type: Article

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