Isolation of a ventricle-specific promoter for the zebrafish ventricular myosin heavy chain (vmhc) gene and its regulation by GATA factors during embryonic heart development

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 238, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1574-1581

  Park, Jae Sun ^a,b   Kim, Hyung Seok ^c   Kim, Jun Dae ^c   Seo, Jungwon ^d   Chung, Kyung Sook ^a   Lee, Ho Sa ^b   Huh, Tae Lin ^c   Jo, Inho ^a,d   Kim, Yong Ou ^a  

^a Korea National Institute of Health   (South Korea)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^c Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^d Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

MHC; Cardiac; GATA4; GATA6; Myh 15; Myocardium; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VMHC GENE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HEART VENTRICLES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 66349097757     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21964     Document Type: Article

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