Xenopus VegTRNA is localized to the vegetal cortex during oogenesis and encodes a novel T-box transcription factor involved in mesodermal patterning

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4119-4129

  Zhang, Jian ^a   King, Mary Lou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mesoderm; Oogenesis; RNA; T box; Transcription factor; Vegetal cortex; VegT; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EGG PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAD; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0030470254     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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