Conversion of ectoderm into a neural fate by ATH-3, a vertebrate basic helix-loop-helix gene homologous to Drosophila proneural gene atonal

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 384-395

  Takebayashi, Koichi ^b   Takahashi, Shuji ^a   Yokota, Chika ^a   Tsuda, Hiroshi ^b   Nakanishi, Shigetada ^b   Asashima, Makoto ^a   Kageyama, Ryoichiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atonal; Helix loop helix factor; Mouse neurogenesis; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; SERINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; ECTOPIC TISSUE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HYPERPLASIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031014629     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.2.384     Document Type: Article

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