Establishment of the dorso-ventral axis in Xenopus embryos is presaged by early asymmetries in β-catenin that are modulated by the Wnt signaling pathway

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1123-1136

  Larabell, Carolyn A ^b   Torres, Monica ^a   Rowning, Brian A ^a,b,c   Yost, Cynthia ^a   Miller, Jeffrey R ^a   Wu, Mike ^c   Kimelman, David ^a   Moon, Randall T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CASEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STEADY STATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BODY PATTERNING; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASES; GLYCOPROTEINS; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030899553     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.136.5.1123     Document Type: Article

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