An evolutionarily conserved enhancer regulates Bmp4 expression in developing incisor and limb bud

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Jumlongras, Dolrudee ^a,b   Lachke, Salil A ^c   O'Connell, Daniel J ^a   Aboukhalil, Anton ^a,d   Li, Xiao ^e   Choe, Sung E ^a,h   Ho, Joshua W K ^a,f   Turbe Doan, Annick ^a   Robertson, Erin A ^a   Olsen, Bjorn R ^b   Bulyk, Martha L ^a,g   Amendt, Brad A ^e   Maas, Richard L ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^f Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics   (United States)

^g HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BMP4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; DNA BINDING MOTIF; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INCISOR; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MANDIBLE; MESENCHYME; MESODERM; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INCISOR; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; LIMB BUDS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84862215147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038568     Document Type: Article

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