A Putative Transcription Factor with Seven Zinc-Finger Motifs Identified in the Developing Suprachiasmatic Nucleus by the Differential Display PCR Method

This work was supported in part by grants from the Special Coordination Funds of the Science and Technology Agency of Japan, the Grant-in-Aid for the Scientific Research on Priority Areas of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan, the Ministry of Welfare, the Mitsubishi Foundation, and SRF. We thank Prof. K. Fukui (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine) for encouragement.

Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Hitoshi Okamura, Department of Anatomy and Brain Science, Kobe University School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan. E-mail:okamurah{at}kobe-u.ac.jp.