Pax6 Regulates Gene Expression in the Vertebrate Lens through miR-204

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Shaham, Ohad ^a   Gueta, Karen ^a   Mor, Eyal ^a   Oren Giladi, Pazit ^a   Grinberg, Dina ^a   Xie, Qing ^b   Cvekl, Ales ^b   Shomron, Noam ^a   Davis, Noa ^a   Keydar Prizant, Maya ^a   Raviv, Shaul ^a   Pasmanik Chor, Metsada ^a   Bell, Rachel E ^a   Levy, Carmit ^a   Avellino, Raffaella ^c   Banfi, Sandro ^c,d   Conte, Ivan ^c   Ashery Padan, Ruth ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TELETHON INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND MEDICINE TIGEM   (Italy)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 204; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX11; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTRON; LENS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; UPREGULATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CRYSTALLINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICRORNAS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SOXC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRPM CATION CHANNELS; VERTEBRATES;

ORYZIINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84875981176     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003357     Document Type: Article

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