Xenopus laevis red cone opsin and Prph2 promoters allow transgene expression in amphibian cones, or both rods and cones

Gene

Volumn 298, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 173-182

  Moritz, Orson L ^a,b   Peck, Allison ^a   Tam, Beatrice M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Peripherin 2; Photoreceptor; RDS; Retina; Transgenic; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OPSIN; RETINA S ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PINEALOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSGENES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037145501     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(02)00923-X     Document Type: Article

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