An intronic single base exchange leads to a brown adipose tissue-specific loss of Ucp3 expression and an altered body mass trajectory

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-62

  Fromme, Tobias ^a,b   Hoffmann, Christoph ^a,b   Nau, Kerstin ^c   Rozman, Jan ^a,b   Reichwald, Kathrin ^d   Utting, Michael ^d   Platzer, Matthias ^d   Klingenspor, Martin ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intronic binding site; Uncoupling protein 3

Indexed keywords

UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHODOPUS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; UCP3 GENE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BODY WEIGHT; CRICETINAE; DNA PRIMERS; INTRONS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CRICETINAE;

EID: 67649514852     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00249.2007     Document Type: Article

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