Emx2 is a dose-dependent negative regulator of Sox2 telencephalic enhancers

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 6461-6476

  Mariani, J ^a   Favaro, R ^a   Lancini, C ^a   Vaccari, G ^b   Ferri, A L ^a   Bertolini, J ^a   Tonoli, D ^a   Latorre, E ^a   Caccia, R ^a   Ronchi, A ^a   Ottolenghi, S ^a   Miyagi, S ^c   Okuda, A ^c   Zappavigna, V ^b   Nicolis, S K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EMX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; EMBRYO; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; HETEROZYGOSITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REPORTER GENE; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSGENE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELLS, CULTURED; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL STEM CELLS; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84864936356     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks295     Document Type: Article

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