Direct and concentration-dependent regulation of the proneural gene Neurogenin2 by Pax6

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 3269-3281

  Scardigli, Raffaella ^a,c   Bäumer, Nicole ^b   Gruss, Peter ^b   Guillemot, François ^a,d   Le Roux, Isabelle ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c Institute of Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering   (Italy)

^d Natl Institute for Medical Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Chick; Electroporation; Spinal cord; Transcriptional enhancer

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NEUROGENIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038765091     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00539     Document Type: Article

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