A role for the vegetally expressed Xenopus gene Mix.1 in endoderm formation and in the restriction of mesoderm to the marginal zone

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2371-2380

  Lemaire, Patrick ^a   Darras, Sébastien ^a   Caillol, Danielle ^a   Kodjabachian, Laurent ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoderm; Head; Mesoderm; Mix.1; Organiser; Siamois; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; HEAD; HOMEOBOX; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MARKER GENE; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENDODERM; FETAL PROTEINS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA CAPS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0031927106     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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