Xenopus LIM motif-containing protein kinase, Xlimk1, is expressed in the developing head structure of the embryo

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 196-205

  Takahashi, Tomoyuki ^a   Aoki, Shunsuke ^a   Nakamura, Takahiro ^a   Koshimizu, Uichi ^a   Matsumoto, Kunio ^a   Nakamura, Toshikazu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

LIM motif; LIM kinase; Neural crest cell; Neural development; Protein kinase; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEAD; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEAD; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030910515     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199706)209:2<196::AID-AJA5>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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