Using BAC transgenesis in zebrafish to identify regulatory sequences of the amyloid precursor protein gene in humans

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Shakes, Leighcraft A ^a   Du, Hansen ^b   Wolf, Hope M ^a,c   Hatcher, Charles ^a   Norford, Derek C ^a   Precht, Patricia ^b   Sen, Ranjan ^b   Chatterjee, Pradeep K ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E4BP4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APP GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS; TRANSPOSON; ZEBRA FISH;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; NEURONS; NOTOCHORD; PLASMIDS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 84865641357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-451     Document Type: Article

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