Melatonin synthesis in retina: CAMP-dependent transcriptional regulation of chicken arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase by a CRE-like sequence and a TTATT repeat motif in the proximal promoter

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-17

  Haque, Rashidul ^a   Chong, Nelson W ^b   Ali, Fatima ^a   Chaurasia, Shyam S ^a,d   Sengupta, Trisha ^a   Chun, Eugene ^a   Howell, Jennifer C ^a   Klein, David C ^c   Michael Iuvone, P ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aanat; AP1; CRE; CREB; melatonin; retina

Indexed keywords

ARALKYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; FORSKOLIN; MELATONIN; PROTEIN C FOS; RENILLA LUCIFERIN 2 MONOOXYGENASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR JUND;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARYLKYLAMINE N ACETYLTRANSFERASE GENE; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RETINA; RETINA CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

5' FLANKING REGION; ANIMALS; ARYLALKYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; LUCIFERASES; MELATONIN; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETINA; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84860416511     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2011.07397.x     Document Type: Article

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