Cloning and characterization of cDNAs encoding the integrin α2 and α3 subunits from Xenopus laevis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 141-155

  Meng, Fanying ^a,b   Whittaker, Charles A ^a,c   Ransom, David G ^a,d   DeSimone, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian embryo; Embryogenesis; Extracellular matrix; Integrin; Mesoderm; Nerochord; Semite; Somitogenesis; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTEGRIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOMITE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS, CD; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BODY PATTERNING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INTEGRIN ALPHA2; INTEGRIN ALPHA3; INTEGRINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOTOCHORD; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030736644     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00108-1     Document Type: Article

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