Separable transcriptional regulatory domains within Otd control photoreceptor terminal differentiation events

Developmental Biology

Volumn 347, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 122-132

  McDonald, Elizabeth C ^a   Xie, Baotong ^a   Workman, Michael ^a   Charlton Perkins, Mark ^a   Terrell, David A ^a   Reischl, Joachim ^b   Wimmer, Ernst A ^b   Gebelein, Brian A ^a   Cook, Tiffany A ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Göttingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell specific gene expression; Crx; Orthodenticle; Otx tail; Photoreceptors; Retinogenesis

Indexed keywords

ORTHODENTICLE RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RHODOPSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INSECT CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RETINA; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CNIDARIA; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77957348303     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.08.016     Document Type: Article

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