Islet β-cell-specific MafA transcription requires the 5′-Flanking conserved region 3 control domain

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 4234-4244

  Raum, Jeffrey C ^a,f   Hunter, Chad S ^a   Artner, Isabella ^b   Henderson, Eva ^a   Guo, Min ^a   Elghazi, Lynda ^c   Sosa Pineda, Beatriz ^c   Ogihara, Takeshi ^d   Mirmira, Raghavendra G ^d   Sussel, Lori ^e   Stein, Roland ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAFA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX6.1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PDX 1; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NKX6 1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NKX6-1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAF;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CONTROL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

5' FLANKING REGION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELLS, CULTURED; EYE PROTEINS; GLUCOSE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; MAF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, LARGE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77956636575     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01396-09     Document Type: Article

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