Expression cloning of a Xenopus T-related gene (Xombi) involved in mesodermal patterning and blastopore lip formation

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4001-4012

  Lustig, K D ^a   Kroll, K L ^a   Sun, E E ^a   Kirschner, M W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastopore lip; Bottle cells; Brachyury; Endoderm; Invagination; Mesoderm; Morphogenesis; T box; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MYELOPID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS; ZYGOTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FETAL PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GASTRULA; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0030453356     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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