TCF-4 binds β-catenin and is expressed in distinct regions of the embryonic brain and limbs

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-18

  Ah Cho, Eun ^a   Dressler, Gregory R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Catenin; Limb bud; Neural development; TCF 4; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CHICKEN OVALBUMIN UPSTREAM PROMOTER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; DIENCEPHALON; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO POLARITY; ENDODERM; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; LIMB; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MESENCHYME; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NEUROMERE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION; XENOPUS;

3T3 CELLS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN; COS CELLS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; EXTREMITIES; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032170317     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00131-2     Document Type: Article

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