RIT2, a neuron-specific small guanosine triphosphatase, is expressed in retinal neuronal cells and its promoter is modulated by the POU4 transcription factors

Molecular Vision

Volumn 19, Issue , 2013, Pages 1371-1386

  Zhang, Ling ^a,c   Wahlin, Karl ^a   Li, Yuanyuan ^a,e   Masuda, Tomohiro ^a   Yang, Zhiyong ^a   Zack, Donald J ^a,b,d   Esumi, Noriko ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUT DE LA VISION   (France)

^e MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN ISL1; PROTEIN RIT2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; MATURATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINA OUTER MOLECULAR LAYER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIT2 GENE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RETINAL NEURONS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84879127738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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