Alternative promoter use in eye development: The complex role and regulation of the transcription factor MITF

Development

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1169-1178

  Bharti, Kapil ^a   Liu, Wenfang ^a   Csermely, Tamas ^a,b   Bertuzzi, Stefano ^a   Arnheiter, Heinz ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b Hospital of the Hungarian Defense Forces Budapest   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Chx10 ocular retardation; Internal start codons; Mitf black eyed white; Mitf red eyed white; Retina; Retinal pigment epithelium

Indexed keywords

MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CHX 10; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; IRIS; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA; UPREGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EXONS; EYE; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 42549160469     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.014142     Document Type: Article

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