A role for Siamois in Spemann organizer formation

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2581-2589

  Fan, Melinda J ^a   Sokol, Sergei Y ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin; Dorsoventral axis; Engrailed; Goosecoid promoter; Homeodomain; Mesoderm; Noggin; Transcriptional repression; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY PATTERNING; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICROINJECTIONS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030748088     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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