Figure 3. Human mimecan promoter activity in bovine corneal keratocytes measured 6 and 24 h after UV irradiation

Deletion constructs of the mimecan promoter that contained different 5' and/or 3' ends were separately transfected into bovine corneal keratocytes with 250 ng of pSVβ-Gal. The relative luciferase activities shown are normalized to pSVβ-Gal values. The results shown are the average of three independent experiments performed in duplicate. Bars indicate the standard error.