A role for mel-18, a Polycomb group-related vertebrate gene, during the anteroposterior specification of the axial skeleton

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1513-1522

  Akasaka, Takeshi ^a   Kanno, Masamoto ^a   Balling, Rudi ^b   Mieza, Marco Antonio ^a   Taniguchi, Masaru ^a   Koseki, Haruhiko ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anteroposterior specification; Axial skeleton; Homeobox genes; Homologous recombination; mel 18; Pax 1; Polycomb group

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA RECOMBINATION; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HOMEOBOX; MESODERM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SKELETON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE AND BONES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, LETHAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; MURINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029891279     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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