Ancient Pbx-Hox signatures define hundreds of vertebrate developmental enhancers

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Parker, Hugo J ^a   Piccinelli, Paul ^a   Sauka Spengler, Tatjana ^b   Bronner, Marianne ^c   Elgar, Greg ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; Enhancer code; Gene regulation; Hox genes; Sea lamprey

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PBX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MEIS2 GENE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPINAL CORD; SPINE DEVELOPMENT; VERTEBRA; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ENHANCER REGION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMEOBOX; VERTEBRATE;

DANIO RERIO; PETROMYZON MARINUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENES, HOMEOBOX; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84855166806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-637     Document Type: Article

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