Pigment cell lineage-specific expression activity of the ascidian tyrosinase-related gene

Gene

Volumn 332, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 61-69

  Toyoda, Reiko ^a   Kasai, Akiko ^a   Sato, Shigeru ^b   Wada, Shuichi ^c   Saiga, Hidetoshi ^c   Ikeo, Kazuho ^d   Gojobori, Takashi ^d   Numakunai, Takaharu ^e   Yamamoto, Hiroaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^e AOMORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3,4 dihydroxyphenilalanine; Dct; DHICA; DOPA; DOPAchrome tautomerase; Melanin; Melanocyte; Microphthalmia; Microphthalmia associated transcription factor; Mitf; Promoter; Tyr; tyrosinase; Tyrosinase related protein; tyrosinase related protein; Tyrp TRP

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; FERTILIZATION; GASTRULA; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE;

5' FLANKING REGION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINEAGE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DNA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; MELANOCYTES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PIGMENTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; HALOCYNTHIA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2442619291     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.01.030     Document Type: Article

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