Functional Properties of Natural Human PAX6 and PAX6(5a) Mutants

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 385-392

  Chauhan, Bharesh K ^a   Yang, Ying ^a   Cveklová, Květa ^a   Cvekl, Aleš ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ARTICLE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE MALFORMATION; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CHO CELLS; CODON, NONSENSE; CRICETINAE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EYE PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEIN BINDING; RABBITS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0942265584     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0968     Document Type: Article

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