HNF4β, a new gene of the HNF4 family with distinct activation and expression profiles in oogenesis and embryogenesis of Xenopus laevis

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 687-694

  Holewa, Beatrix ^a   Zapp, Dirk ^a   Drewes, Thorsten ^a   Senkel, Sabine ^a   Ryffel, Gerhart U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; NUCLEAR FACTOR; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4; HNF4BETA PROTEIN, XENOPUS; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BINDING SITE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RNA SPLICING; TRANSACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOGENESIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0030614544     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.17.2.687     Document Type: Article

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