Functional analysis of synaptotagmin gene regulatory regions in two distantly related ascidian species

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 543-552

  Matsumoto, Jun ^a,b   Katsuyama, You ^a,c   Ohtsuka, Yukio ^a   Lemaire, Patrick ^d   Okamura, Yasushi ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e OKAZAKI INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Enhancer; Neuron; Promoter; Synaptotagmin

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LIM PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HMX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BINDING SITE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNAPTOTAGMIN GENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTOTAGMINS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; HALOCYNTHIA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI;

EID: 49349107126     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2008.01049.x     Document Type: Article

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