Transducing positional information to the Hox genes: Critical interaction of cdx gene products with position-sensitive regulatory elements

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 4349-4358

  Charité, Jeroen ^a,b   De Graaff, Wim ^a   Consten, Dimitri ^a,c   Reijnen, Mark J ^a   Korving, Jeroen ^a   Deschamps, Jacqueline ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anteroposterior axis; Axial patterning; cdx genes; Hoxb8; Positional information

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GASTRULATION; HOMEOBOX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BODY PATTERNING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GASTRULA; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031672472     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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