The photoreceptor-specific nuclear receptor Nr2e3 interacts with Crx and exerts opposing effects on the transcription of rod versus cone genes

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 747-764

  Peng, Guang Hua ^a   Ahmad, Omar ^a   Ahmad, Faisel ^b   Liu, Jianfeng ^a   Chen, Shiming ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CONE ROD HOMEOBOX PROTEIN; DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; OPSIN; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CHROMATIN; DNA BINDING; DOWN REGULATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY; RETINA CONE; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA ROD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CONES (RETINA); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RODS (RETINA); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 15544371180     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi070     Document Type: Article

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