QRX, a novel homebox gene, modulates photoreceptor gene expression

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1025-1040

  Wang, Qing Iiang ^a   Chen, Shiming ^b   Ensumi, Noriko ^a   Swain, Prabodh K ^c,h   Haines, Heidi S ^e   Peng, Guanghua ^b   Melia, B Micele ^a   McIntosh, Iain ^a   Heckenlively, John R ^f   Jacobson, Samuel G ^g   Stone, Edwin M ^e   Swaroop, Anand ^c,d   Zack, Donald J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^h National Brain Research Center   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN RET; RHODOPSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR QRX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; COATOMER PROTEIN; CONE ROD HOMEOBOX PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; NRL PROTEIN, MOUSE; RX PROTEIN, VERTEBRATE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMOSOME 19P; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETINA; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME 9; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BOVINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 9; COATOMER PROTEIN; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RETINAL DISEASES; RHODOPSIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 2542625170     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddh117     Document Type: Article

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