A noncoding RNA regulates the neurogenin1 gene locus during mouse neocortical development

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 42, 2012, Pages 16939-16944

  Onoguchi, Masahiro ^a   Hirabayashi, Yusuke ^a   Koseki, Haruhiko ^b   Gotoh, Yukiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROGENIN 1; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROG 1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; UTNGN 1 GENE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA PRIMERS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84867648038     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1202956109     Document Type: Article

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