The basic domain of ATH5 mediates neuron-specific promoter activity during retina development

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 10029-10039

  Skowronska Krawczyk, Dorota ^a,b   Matter Sadzinski, Lidia ^a,b   Ballivet, Marc ^b   Matter, Jean Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ATH5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; E BOX ELEMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYOD PROTEIN; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 27644582049     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.22.10029-10039.2005     Document Type: Article

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