Photoreceptor-specific nuclear receptor NR2E3 functions as a transcriptional activator in rod photoreceptors

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 1563-1575

  Cheng, Hong ^a   Khanna, Hemant ^a   Oh, Edwin C T ^a   Hicks, David ^c   Mitton, Kenneth P ^d   Swaroop, Anand ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CELL RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; PROTEIN NR1D1; PROTEIN NR2E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA CONE; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; RETINA ROD; RODENT; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RHODOPSIN; RODS (RETINA); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

BOVINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 4344665205     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddh173     Document Type: Article

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