XBF-2 is a transcriptional repressor that converts ectoderm into neural tissue

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 5019-5031

  Mariani, Francesca V ^a   Harland, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Neural specification; Repressor; Winged helix; XBF 2; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CELL MARKER; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPLANT; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE LOCATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; CERBERUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032413504     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.125.24.5019     Document Type: Article

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