Structure, evolution and expression of the FOXL2 transcription unit

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 101, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 206-211

  Cocquet, J ^a   De Baere, E ^b   Gareil, M ^a   Pannetier, M ^c   Xia, X ^d   Fellous, M ^a   Veitia, R A ^a,e  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e Hôpital Cochin ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXL2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BLEPHAROPHIMOSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORGANOGENESIS; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYADENYLATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346058365     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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