A systematic enhancer screen using lentivector transgenesis identifies conserved and non-conserved functional elements at the Olig1 and Olig2 locus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Friedli, Marc ^a,d   Barde, Isabelle ^b,d   Arcangeli, Mélanie ^a,d   Verp, Sonia ^b,d   Quazzola, Alexandra ^b,d   Zakany, Jozsef ^c,d   Lin Marq, Nathalie ^a,d   Robyr, Daniel ^a,d   Attanasio, Catia ^e   Spitz, François ^f   Duboule, Denis ^b,c,d   Trono, Didier ^b,d   Antonarakis, Stylianos E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d Frontiers in Genetics   (Switzerland)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; OLIG1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; OLIG1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; OLIG2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; OLIG2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; DNA DETERMINATION; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LENTIVIRUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; OLIG1 GENE; OLIG2 GENE; OOCYTE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENICS; ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHICKEN; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; LENTIVIRINAE; METABOLISM; TRANSGENE;

MURINAE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LAC OPERON; LENTIVIRUS; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSGENES;

EID: 78650811959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015741     Document Type: Article

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