Distinct enhancers at the Pax3 locus can function redundantly to regulate neural tube and neural crest expressions

Developmental Biology

Volumn 339, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 519-527

  Degenhardt, Karl R ^a,b   Milewski, Rita C ^b   Padmanabhan, Arun ^b   Miller, Mayumi ^b   Singh, Manvendra K ^b   Lang, Deborah ^c   Engleka, Kurt A ^b   Wu, Meilin ^b   Li, Jun ^b   Zhou, Diane ^b   Antonucci, Nicole ^b   Li, Li ^b   Epstein, Jonathan A ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhancer redundancy; Evolutionary conservation; Gene regulation; Neural crest; Pax3

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRON; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 76949102298     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.12.030     Document Type: Article

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