Regionalized metabolic activity establishes boundaries of retinoic acid signalling

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 7361-7372

  Hollemann, Thomas ^a   Chen, Yonglong ^b   Grunz, Horst ^b   Pieler, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CYP26; Hindbrain segmentation; Retinoic acid; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; OXYGENASE; RETINOIC ACID; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GASTRULATION; METABOLISM; NEUROMERE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 2; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRETINOIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032535144     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.24.7361     Document Type: Article

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