Altering cell fates in sea urchin embryos by overexpressing SpOtx, an orthodenticle-related protein

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1489-1498

  Mao, Chai An ^a   Wikramanayake, Athula H ^a   Gan, Lin ^a   Chuang, Chin Kai ^a   Summers, Robert G ^b   Klein, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo development; Homeobox protein; Orthodenticle Otx genes; Sea urchin; SpOtx

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEA URCHIN; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ECTODERM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEA URCHINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA;

EID: 0029941726     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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