Two copies of a subelement from the Vg1 RNA localization sequence are sufficient to direct vegetal localization in Xenopus oocytes

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 5013-5020

  Gautreau, Denise ^a   Cote, Colette A ^a   Mowry, Kimberly L ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Oocyte; Polarity; RNA localization; Vg1 RNA; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO POLARITY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL POLARITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; OOCYTES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0031440350     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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