Cloning and functional analysis of hypothalamic homeobox gene Bsx1a and its isoform, Bsx1b

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3743-3749

  Chu, Hui Yi ^a   Ohtoshi, Akihira ^a  

^a THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MURINAE;

EID: 34248191814     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01561-06     Document Type: Article

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