A novel Gli3 enhancer controls the Gli3 spatiotemporal expression pattern through a TALE homeodomain protein binding site

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1432-1443

  Coy, Sarah ^a,e   Caamaño, Jorge H ^b   Carvajal, Jaime ^c   Cleary, Michael L ^d   Borycki, Anne Gaëlle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEIS PROTEIN; PREP 2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HCNE1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PBX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHICK; EMBRYO; GENE LOCUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHICKENS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRONS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL TUBE; PC12 CELLS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RATS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79953773327     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00451-10     Document Type: Article

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