Requirement of TCTG(G/C) Direct Repeats and Overlapping GATA Site for Maintaining the Cardiac-Specific Expression of Cardiac troponin T in Developing and Adult Mice

Anatomical Record

Volumn 291, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1574-1586

  Harlan, Shannon M ^a   Reiter, Rebecca S ^a   Sigmund, Curt D ^b   Lin, Jenny Li Chun ^a   Lin, Jim Jung Ching ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

A T rich site; ChIP; Cis regulatory element; HMGB1; MEF2 like motif

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; TROPONIN T;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; TROPONIN T;

EID: 58149383867     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20772     Document Type: Article

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