Coordinated transcriptional regulation of the unc-25 glutamic acid decarboxylase and the unc-47 GABA vesicular transporter by the Caenorhabditis elegans UNC-30 homeodomain protein

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 6225-6234

  Eastman, Catharine ^a   Horvitz, H Robert ^b   Jin, Yishi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; GABA; GABA transporter; GAD; Homeodomain; Transcription

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0033179477     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-15-06225.1999     Document Type: Article

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