Real-time monitoring of functional interactions between upstream and core promoter sequences in living cells of sea urchin embryos

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4882-4894

  Kobayashi, Akiko ^a,c   Watanabe, Youko ^a   Akasaka, Koji ^b   Kokubo, Tetsuro ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX E; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA URCHIN; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HEMICENTROTUS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS; TATA BOX; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ECHINOIDEA; HEMICENTROTUS PULCHERRIMUS; MAMMALIA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS;

EID: 34547919214     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm519     Document Type: Article

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