Evolutionary changes to transthyretin: Developmentally regulated and tissue-specific gene expression

FEBS Journal

Volumn 276, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 5357-5366

  Yamauchi, Kiyoshi ^a   Ishihara, Akinori ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental regulation; Thyroid hormone; Tissue specificity; Transcriptional control; Transthyretin

Indexed keywords

HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; PREALBUMIN; THYROXINE BINDING GLOBULIN;

AMPHIBIA; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; LIVER; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPTILE; RODENT; SHORT SURVEY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; LIVER; PREALBUMIN; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; THYROID HORMONES; THYROXINE-BINDING PROTEINS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

EUTHERIA; METATHERIA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349235702     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07245.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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