Stereospecificity and PAX6 function direct Hoxd4 neural enhancer activity along the antero-posterior axis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 299, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 582-593

  Nolte, Christof ^a,b   Rastegar, Mojgan ^a   Amores, Angel ^c   Bouchard, Maxime ^a,b   Grote, David ^a,b   Maas, Richard ^d   Kovacs, Erzsebet Nagy ^a   Postlethwait, John ^c   Rambaldi, Isabel ^a   Rowan, Sheldon ^d   Yan, Yi Lin ^c   Zhang, Feng ^a,b   Featherstone, Mark ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior; Antero posterior; Border; Conservation; Dorso ventral; Embryonic patterning; Evolution; Hindbrain; Hoxd4; Hoxd4a; Knockdown; Mouse; Neural enhancer; Pax6; Phylogenetic footprint; RARE; Retinoic acid; Rhombomere; Stereospecificity; Transcription; Transgenic; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

DNA; HOX PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN HOXD4; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; EMBRYO; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROMERE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; RHOMBENCEPHALON; STEREOSPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33750414811     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.08.061     Document Type: Article

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