Genetic analysis of zebrafish gli1 and gli2 reveals divergent requirements for gli genes in vertebrate development

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1549-1564

  Karlstrom, Rolf O ^a   Tyurina, Oksana V ^a   Kawakami, Atsushi ^b,c   Nishioka, Noriyuki ^d,e   Talbot, William S ^f   Sasaki, Hiroshi ^d   Schier, Alexander F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaxial cells; Cyclopamine; Floor plate; Forebrain patterning; Hedgehog signaling; Morpholino

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOUSE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERATRUM ALKALOIDS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; ERINACEIDAE; EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0012843926     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00364     Document Type: Review

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