XIPOU 2 is a potential regulator of Spemann's Organizer

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1179-1189

  Witta, Samir E ^a   Sato, Sheryl M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

POU domain; Spemann's Organizer; Xenopus; XIPOU 2

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MESODERM; MICROINJECTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERES; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INHIBINS; MESODERM; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030892059     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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