Foxa2 regulates the expression of Nato3 in the floor plate by a novel evolutionarily conserved promoter

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 187-199

  Mansour, Abed AlFatah ^a   Nissim Eliraz, Einat ^a   Zisman, Sophie ^b   Golan Lev, Tamar ^a   Schatz, Omri ^a   Klar, Avihu ^b   Ben Arie, Nissim ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

BHLH transcription factor; Chick in ovo electroporation; Floor plate; Foxa2; Nato3; Spinal cord development; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NATO3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHICK EMBRYO; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-BETA; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL TUBE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ERINACEIDAE; SPONDIAS PURPUREA;

EID: 78650915176     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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