The homeobox gene, Xanf-1, can control both neural differentiation and patterning in the presumptive anterior neurectoderm of the Xenopus laevis embryo

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 4513-4523

  Ermakova, Galina V ^a   Alexandrova, Eugenia M ^a   Kazanskaya, Olga V ^a   Vasiliev, Oleg L ^a   Smith, Maria W ^b   Zaraisky, Andrey G ^a  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

BF 1; Forebrain; GFP; Neurogenesis; Otx 2; Patterning; Pax 6; Xanf 1

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HERPES VIRUS; HOMEOBOX; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA PRIMERS; ECTODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROINJECTIONS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROSENCEPHALON; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TELENCEPHALON; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

HERPES; HERPESVIRIDAE; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032716707     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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