Mouse transgenesis identifies conserved functional enhancers and cis-regulatory motif in the vertebrate LIM homeobox gene Lhx2 locus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Lee, Alison P ^a   Brenner, Sydney ^a   Venkatesh, Byrappa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIM PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LHX2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; LHX2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRB2 GENE; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LHX2 GENE; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REPORTER GENE; SPINAL GANGLION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSGENICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CHICKEN; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; VERTEBRATE;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; PISCES; TAKIFUGU; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 79957501458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020088     Document Type: Article

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