Conserved cis-elements in the Xenopus red opsin promoter necessary for cone-specific expression

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1479-1484

  Babu, S ^a   McIlvain, V ^a   Whitaker, S L ^a,b   Knox, B E ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Photoreceptor; Promoter; Retina; Transcription; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OPSIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETINA CONE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS;

5' FLANKING REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CONES (RETINA); CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; OPSIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 32344435515     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.01.080     Document Type: Article

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