Meis homeoproteins directly regulate Pax6 during vertebrate lens morphogenesis

Genes and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 2097-2107

  Zhang, Xin ^a   Friedman, Adam ^a   Heaney, Shaun ^a   Purcell, Patricia ^a   Maas, Richard L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lens; Meis1; Meis2; Pax6

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN MEIS; PROTEIN MEIS1; PROTEIN MEIS2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LENS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHICK EMBRYO; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOWN-REGULATION; ECTODERM; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, DOMINANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA; MUS MUSCULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037102552     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1007602     Document Type: Article

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