Identification of a novel enhancer of brain expression near the apoE gene cluster by comparative genomics

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1676, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-50

  Zheng, Ping ^a,d   Pennacchio, Len A ^b   Le Goff, Wilfried ^c   Rubin, Edward M ^b   Smith, Jonathan D ^a,c  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Apolipoprotein E; Gene expression; Genomics; Neuron

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BRAIN; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SLICE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; FUSION GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; CYTOLOGY; ENHANCER REGION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA PRIMERS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GENOMICS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 1442360933     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbaexp.2003.10.007     Document Type: Article

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