A vegetally localized T-box transcription factor in Xenopus eggs specifies mesoderm and endoderm and is essential for embryonic mesoderm formation

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1689-1698

  Horb, Marko E ^a   Thomsen, Gerald H ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominant negative protein; Endoderm; Mesoderm; T box; Transcription factor; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE ISOLATION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS;

ACTIVINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENDODERM; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE LIBRARY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INHIBINS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVUM; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030955861     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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