Direct transcriptional regulation of Gata4 during early endoderm specification is controlled by FoxA2 binding to an intronic enhancer

Developmental Biology

Volumn 346, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 346-355

  Rojas, Anabel ^a   Schachterle, William ^b   Xu, Shan Mei ^b   Martín, Franz ^a   Black, Brian L ^b,c  

^a CABIMER Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine CSIC University of Seville UPO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoderm progenitors; Enhancer; Forkhead proteins; FoxA2; GATA4; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; FOXA2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; ENHANCER REGION; INTRON; LOXP SITE; MIDGUT; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEM CELL; STOMACH; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDODERM; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-BETA; INTRONS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 77956882200     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.07.032     Document Type: Article

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