Cis-regulatory remodeling of the SCL locus during vertebrate evolution

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 5741-5751

  Göttgens, Berthold ^a   Ferreira, Rita ^a   Sanchez, Maria José ^b   Ishibashi, Shoko ^c   Li, Juan ^a   Spensberger, Dominik ^a   Lefevre, Pascal ^d   Ottersbach, Katrin ^a   Chapman, Michael ^a   Kinston, Sarah ^a   Knezevic, Kathy ^a   Hoogenkamp, Maarten ^d   Follows, George A ^a   Bonifer, Constanze ^d   Amaya, Enrique ^c   Green, Anthony R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; SCL PROTEIN, XENOPUS; TAL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TAL1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIESIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 84862833504     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00870-10     Document Type: Article

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