Dissection of a Ciona regulatory element reveals complexity of cross-species enhancer activity

Developmental Biology

Volumn 390, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 261-272

  Chen, Wei Chung ^a,d   Pauls, Stefan ^b   Bacha, Jamil ^c   Elgar, Greg ^b   Loose, Matthew ^c   Shimeld, Sebastian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d Diamonchem International Co LTD   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ciona; Crystallin; Evolution; Gene regulatory network; Lens

Indexed keywords

BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA GAMMA CRYSTALLIN GENE; BINDING SITE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SPECIES ENHANCER ACTIVITY; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LENS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSGENICS;

CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

CIONA; CRYSTALLIN; EVOLUTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; LENS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHICKENS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CRYSTALLINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROPORATION; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84899482884     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.03.013     Document Type: Article

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