XBF-1, a winged helix transcription factor with dual activity, has a role in positioning neurogenesis in Xenopus competent ectoderm

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 4889-4900

  Bourguignon, Catherine ^a,b   Li, Jian ^c   Papalopulu, Nancy ^a,b  

^a WELLCOME CRC INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Anatomy ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forebrain; Neurogenesis; Neuronal patterning; qin; XBF 1; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUBULIN; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032412852     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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