A highly conserved lens transcriptional control element from the Pax-6 gene

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 225-229

  Williams, Sonya C ^a   Altmann, Curtis R ^b   Chow, Robert L ^a   Hemmati Brivanlou, Ali ^b   Lang, Richard A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Pax 6 gene; Proximal promoter; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LENS EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 17144471991     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00057-4     Document Type: Article

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