Functional conservation of Pax6 regulatory elements in humans and mice demonstrated with a novel transgenic reporter mouse

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tyas, David A ^a   Simpson, T Ian ^a   Carr, Catherine B ^a   Kleinjan, Dirk A ^b   Van Heyningen, Veronica ^b   Mason, John O ^a   Price, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; NEOMYCIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LUMINESCENT AGENT; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BRAIN; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EYE PROTEINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 33646823332     PISSN: 1471213X     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-6-21     Document Type: Article

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