Long-range downstream enhancers are essential for Pax6 expression

Developmental Biology

Volumn 299, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 563-581

  Kleinjan, Dirk A ^a   Seawright, Anne ^a   Mella, Sebastien ^a   Carr, Catherine B ^b   Tyas, David A ^b   Simpson, T Ian ^b   Mason, John O ^b   Price, David J ^b   van Heyningen, Veronica ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye development; Green fluorescent protein; Long range enhancer; Microphthalamia; Paired less isoform; Pax6 gene regulation; Transgenic mouse; Yeast artificial chromosome

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NEOMYCIN; TAU PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EMBRYO; EXON; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LOXP SITE; MALE; MICROPHTHALMIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33750350276     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.08.060     Document Type: Article

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