Xenopus embryos regulate the nuclear localization of XMyoD

Genes and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1994, Pages 1311-1323

  Rupp, Ralph A W ^a,b   Snider, Lauren ^a   Weintraub, Harold ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER LABORATORY OF THE MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

Author keywords

embryos, MyoD; mRNA expression; myogenesis; nuclear localization; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MESODERM; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0028352113     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.8.11.1311     Document Type: Article

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