Transcription factors SOX4 and SOX11 function redundantly to regulate the development of mouse retinal ganglion cells

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 18429-18438

  Jiang, Ying ^a,b   Ding, Qian ^a   Xie, Xiaoling ^a   Libby, Richard T ^a   Lefebvre, Veronique ^c   Gan, Lin ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

GENES;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX11; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRN3B GENE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MATH5 GENE; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SOX11 GENE; SOX4 GENE; SOXC GENE;

DEVELOPMENT; DIFFERENTIATION; EYE; GENE KNOCKOUT; RETINA;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SOXC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3B;

EID: 84880068310     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.478503     Document Type: Article

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