Chicken β B1 crystallin: gene sequence and evidence for functional conservation of promoter activity between chicken and mouse

Lens-preferred activity of chicken δ1- a

Lens-preferred activity of chicken δ1- and δ2-crystallin enhancers in transgenic mice and evidence for retinoic acid-responsive regulation of the δ1-crystallin gene

✍ Li, Xuan ;Cvekl, Aleš ;Bassnett, Steven ;Piatigorsky, Joram 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 210 KB 👁 1 views

There are two tandemly linked dcrystallin genes (58 d1-d2 38) in the chicken, with the d1-crystallin gene being expressed much more highly (50-100-fold) in the embryonic lens than the d2crystallin gene. Previous transfection experiments have shown that a lens-preferred enhancer exists in the third i