Mouse melanocortin-4 receptor gene 5′-flanking region imparts cell specific expression in vitro

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 184, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 173-185

  Dumont, Laurence M ^a   Wu, Chia Shan ^a   Aschkenasi, Carl J ^b   Elmquist, Joel K ^b   Lowell, Bradford B ^b   Mountjoy, Kathleen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene structure; Melanocortin 4 receptor; Promoter activity

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MELANOCORTIN; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE STRUCTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

3' FLANKING REGION; 5' FLANKING REGION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0035955871     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(01)00558-5     Document Type: Article

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