Compound mouse mutants of bZIP transcription factors Mafg and Mafk reveal a regulatory network of non-crystallin genes associated with cataract

Human Genetics

Volumn 134, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 717-735

  Agrawal, Smriti A ^a   Anand, Deepti ^a   Siddam, Archana D ^a   Kakrana, Atul ^a   Dash, Soma ^a   Scheiblin, David A ^a   Dang, Christine A ^a   Terrell, Anne M ^a   Waters, Stephanie M ^a   Singh, Abhyudai ^a   Motohashi, Hozumi ^b   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^c   Lachke, Salil A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAFG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAFK; EYE PROTEIN; MAFG PROTEIN, MOUSE; MAFK PROTEIN, MOUSE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ALDH3A1 GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYGF GENE; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENOMICS; GSTO1 GENE; HSPB1 GENE; LENS FIBER; MGST1 GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SC4MOL GENE; STEROL SYNTHESIS; UCHL1 GENE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CATARACT; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MAFG TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MAFK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84930765925     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-015-1554-5     Document Type: Article

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