Antagonistic actions of activin A and BMP-2/4 control dorsal lip-specific activation of the early response gene XFD-1' in Xenopus laevis embryos

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 6739-6749

  Kaufmann, Eckhard ^a   Paul, Hubert ^a   Friedle, Henner ^a   Metz, Annette ^a   Scheucher, Michaela ^a   Clement, Joachim H ^a   Knöchel, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activin response element (ARE); Bone morphogenetic protein; Fork head; Xenopus laevis; XFD 1'(XFKH1) promoter

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY RESPONSE GENE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029826438     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb01063.x     Document Type: Article

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