Cement gland-specific activation of the Xag1 promoter is regulated by co-operation of putative Ets and ATF/CREB transcription factors

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 4387-4397

  Wardle, Fiona C ^a   Wainstock, Daniel H ^a   Sive, Hazel L ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior; ATF CREB; Cement gland; Ectoderm; Ets; Promoter analysis; Transgenic; Xag1; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MARKER GENE; MUCUS SECRETION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; XENOPUS;

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLOOD PROTEINS; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-ETS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036799984     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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