Vertebrate tinman homologues XNkx2-3 and XNkx2-5 are required for heart formation in a functionally redundant manner

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 4439-4449

  Fu, Yuchang ^a   Yan, Wei ^a   Mohun, Tim J ^b   Evans, Sylvia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heart development; Homeobox genes; Microinjection; Xenopus laevis XNkx2 3; XNkx2 5

Indexed keywords

DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE; HOMEOBOX; MESODERM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HEART; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MYOCARDIUM; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031647381     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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