Epitope-tagging Math5 and Pou4f2: New tools to study retinal ganglion cell development in the mouse

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 238, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2309-2317

  Fu, Xueyao ^a   Kiyama, Takae ^a   Li, Renzhong ^b   Russell, Mark ^a   Klein, William H ^a,c   Mu, Xiuqian ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulatory networks; Math5; Pou4f2; Retinal ganglion cell development; Tagged knock in alleles

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GENOMIC DNA; HEMAGGLUTININ; PROTEIN TAG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MATH 5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F2; TYROSYLPROLYLTYROSYLASPARTYLVALYLPROLYLASPARTYLTYROSYLALANINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; MATH 5 GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POU4F2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; EPITOPES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3B;

EID: 70349156880     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21974     Document Type: Article

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