Mice lacking the 68-amino-acid, mammal-specific N-terminal extension of WT1 develop normally and are fertile

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2608-2613

  Miles, Colin G ^a   Slight, Joan ^a   Spraggon, Lee ^a   O'Sullivan, Maureen ^c   Patek, Charles ^b   Hastie, Nicholas D ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; RNA; WT1 PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODON; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FETUS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MOUSE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLATION INITIATION; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DENYS-DRASH SYNDROME; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE TARGETING; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WILMS TUMOR; WT1 PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037379427     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.7.2608-2613.2003     Document Type: Article

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