Bimodal control of Hoxd gene transcription in the spinal cord defines two regulatory subclusters

Development

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 929-939

  Tschopp, Patrick ^a,c   Christen, Alix J ^a,b   Duboule, Denis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Collinearity; Hox genes; Mouse genetics; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; HOXD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HOX GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPINAL CORD; SUPERIOR CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

MUS;

EID: 84856702225     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.076794     Document Type: Article

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