Fig. 4.

Comparison of the C57BL/6J (accession number AC073564) and 129 (accession number AJ272314) 5′ regions flanking the ATG translational start site of the VPAC₂ receptor gene. The dots indicate matching sequences, dashes indicate missing sequences. Substitutions and insertions are shown. Putative transcription factor binding sites are labelled above the sequence. The position of the oligonucleotide primer used to amplify the C57BL/6J and BALB/c 5′ flanking regions is underlined. The SfoI, NheI, HindIII, NcoI and BglII restriction sites used to make the 5′ flanking region luciferase reporter gene constructs are shown in bold.