Focus on Molecules: Neural retina leucine zipper (NRL)

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 104, Issue , 2012, Pages 99-100

  Jayaram, Hari ^a   Khaw, Peng Tee ^a   MacLaren, Robert E ^a,b   Limb, G Astrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

NRL; Photoreceptor; Retinal development

Indexed keywords

DNA; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; NEURAL RETINA LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RETINA DEGENERATION; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; EYE PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84868354483     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2012.02.012     Document Type: Short Survey

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