Epidermal induction and inhibition of neural fate by translation initiation factor 4AIII

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 4235-4242

  Weinstein, Daniel C ^a   Honoré, Eric ^a,b   Hernmati Brivanlou, Ali ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Epidermal induction; Neural induction; Translation; XeIF 4AIII; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EPIDERMIS; GASTRULA; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE INDUCTION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTORS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EPIDERMIS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4A; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030659752     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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