title: Differential Pax6 promoter activity and transcript expression during forebrain development.
abstract: Three different Pax6 promoters -- P0, P1, and P alpha -- show differential activity in the developing eye and spinal cord. To examine promoter usage during forebrain development, we performed in situ hybridization and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction to detect transcripts initiated from each promoter. Promoter-specific transcripts are expressed within subdomains of total Pax6 expression, but differ from one another in their spatial localization and expression over time. Additionally, we identified a novel P0-initiated transcript and detected a developmentally regulated antisense transcript.
authors.affiliation: UCLA Neuroscience IDP and Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA.
authors.forename: Tonya R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hedlund
authors.forename: Ellen M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Carpenter
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D005136:Eye Proteins; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D017403:In Situ Hybridization; D051379:Mice; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D000071841:PAX6 Transcription Factor; D051761:Paired Box Transcription Factors; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D016548:Prosencephalon / Q000196:embryology*; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D005136:Eye Proteins; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins; D000071841:PAX6 Transcription Factor; D051761:Paired Box Transcription Factors; C000605732:Pax6 protein, mouse; D012097:Repressor Proteins