Zinc finger proteins in early Xenopus development

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 291-295

  Hollemann, Thomas ^a   Bellefroid, Eric ^a   Stick, Reimer ^a   Pieler, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Xenopus laevis; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0030007053     PISSN: 02146282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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