Retinal expression of zebrafish six3.1 and its regulation by Pax6

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 309, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 475-481

  Wargelius, Anna ^b   Seo, Hee Chan ^a   Austbø, Lars ^a   Fjose, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

DNA binding; Optix; Promoter; Retina; Sine oculis; Six genes

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SIX3 1 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0041422383     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.07.010     Document Type: Article

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