Very early and transient vegetal-plate expression of SpKrox1, a Kruppel/Krox gene from Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 185-195

  Wang, Weiye ^a   Wikramanayake, Athula H ^a   Gonzalez Rimbau, Maria ^b   Vlahou, Antonia ^b   Flytzanis, Constantin N ^b   Klein, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Kruppel Krox genes; sea urchin embryos; vegetal plate specification; zinc finger transcription factors

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR KROX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN; VEGETAL PLATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEA URCHINS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA; PLUTEUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS;

EID: 0030460216     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(96)00614-4     Document Type: Article

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