Melatoninergic differentiation of retinal photoreceptors: Activation of the chicken hydroxyindole-O-methyltransferase promoter requires a homeodomain-binding element that interacts with Otx2

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 276-290

  Dinet, Virginie ^a   Girard Naud, Nathalie ^a   Voisin, Pierre ^a   Bernard, Marianne ^a  

^a UMR CNRS 6187   (France)

Author keywords

chicken; hydroxyindole O methyltransferase; melatonin; Otx2; photoreceptor; pineal; retina; transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSEROTONIN METHYLTRANSFERASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; TRANSACTIVATION;

ACETYLSEROTONIN N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MELATONIN; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PINEAL GLAND; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33744901451     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2005.12.011     Document Type: Article

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