A 350 bp region of the proximal promoter of Rds drives cell-type specific gene expression

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 186-194

  Cai, Xue ^a   Conley, Shannon M ^a   Cheng, Tong ^b   Al Ubaidi, Muayyad R ^a   Naash, Muna I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Michelle Eichelberger is Systems and Electronic Services Librarian at Genesee Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

Cis elements; Gene therapy; In vitro transfection; Promoter activity and specificity; Rds gene

Indexed keywords

MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2; PROTEIN RDS; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; TETRASPANIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ESRRB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NF1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL SPECIFICITY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETINA DEGENERATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

5' FLANKING REGION; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; RETINOBLASTOMA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 77954954049     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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