FIZ1 is expressed during photoreceptor maturation, and synergizes with NRL and CRX at rod-specific promoters in vitro

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 349-360

  Mali, Raghuveer S ^a   Zhang, Xiao ^a   Hoerauf, Widmann ^a   Doyle, Danielle ^a   Devitt, Jeffrey ^a   Loffreda Wren, Janice ^a   Mitton, Kenneth P ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cGMP phosphodiesterase subunit; CRX; FIZ1; gene; mouse; NRL; retinal degeneration; retinal development; rhodopsin; transcription

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FIZ1; RHODOPSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRL; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PDE6B GENE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RHO FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; RODS (RETINA); TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 33845662381     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2006.10.009     Document Type: Article

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