Expression of zebrafish pax6b in pancreas is regulated by two enhancers containing highly conserved cis-elements bound by PDX1, PBX and PREP factors

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Delporte, François M ^a   Pasque, Vincent ^a,c   Devos, Nathalie ^a   Manfroid, Isabelle ^a   Voz, Marianne L ^a   Motte, Patrick ^a   Biemar, Frédéric ^a,b   Martial, Joseph A ^a   Peers, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Temple University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PBX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PDX 1; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; INSULIN PROMOTER FACTOR 1; MESSENGER RNA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENTEROENDOCRINE CELL; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CELL; PROMOTER REGION; RETINA NERVE CELL; TELENCEPHALON; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RETINA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ACTINOPTERYGII; DANIO RERIO;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PANCREAS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TELENCEPHALON; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 44849129455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-8-53     Document Type: Article

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