Literature for finding a gene-specific promoter? - (May/21/2008 )

Can anyone give me citations for reviews that cover this problem, or even specific papers dedicated to looking for a promoter for a specific gene? In general, how difficult is it to find promoters for one's gene of interest?

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This generally involves scanning relevant literature to find one that people have reliably used for that particular tissue or for that time. I sure hope somebody makes a database of such promoters. There are databases for cre- mice made under different promoters, it may help if you are working on mice.

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try these links
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/c...stract/15/7/607
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/1/322
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/31/1/266
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/31/1/114
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/1/328
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.10...623103322452378

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I'm actually working with avians, so I think it's much tougher. I do agree the best strategy is to find ones that have already been cloned.

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Thanks, these tools look useful.

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http://scholar.google.com.eg/scholar?hl=en...lar.google.com/

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