Requirement for βB1-crystallin promoter of Xenopus laevis in embryonic lens development and lens regeneration

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 131-140

  Mizuno, Nobuhiko ^a,b   Ueda, Yoko ^a   Kondoh, Hisato ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

B1 crystallin; Lens regeneration; Promoter; Transgenesis; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

BETA CRYSTALLIN; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CORNEA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LENS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REGENERATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TADPOLE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; LARVA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

GALLUS GALLUS; MUS MUSCULUS; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LARVA; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGENERATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 18744399043     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2005.00789.x     Document Type: Article

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