The wing 2 region of the FOXC1 forkhead domain is necessary for normal DNA-binding and transactivation functions

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2531-2538

  Murphy, Tara C ^a   Saleem, Ramsey A ^a   Footz, Tim ^a   Ritch, Robert ^b,c   McGillivray, Barbara ^d   Walter, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AXENFELD RIEGER MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CELL STRAIN COS7; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RIEGER SYNDROME; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COS CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GLAUCOMA; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IRIS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 3242882446     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0167     Document Type: Article

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