opl: A zinc finger protein that regulates neural determination and patterning in Xenopus

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2867-2882

  Kuo, John S ^b   Patel, Mukesh ^a   Gamse, Joshua ^a   Merzdorf, Christa ^a   Liu, Xuedong ^a   Apekin, Vladimir ^a   Sive, Hazel ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competence; Dorsal neural; Engrailed; Neural crest; Odd paired; Subtractive cloning; Xenopus; Zic; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DIVISION; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE ISOLATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; BODY PATTERNING; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EPIDERMIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURAL CREST; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0031660924     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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