Mutation of a putative nuclear receptor binding site abolishes activity of the nestin midbrain enhancer

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1625, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 109-115

  Kappen, Claudia ^a,b   Yaworsky, Paul J ^a,c  

^a MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryonic development; Midbrain; Mutation; Nuclear receptor; Region specific; Reporter gene; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; NESTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPORTER GENE; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; INTRONS; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037414935     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(02)00588-2     Document Type: Article

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