Relationship of vegetal cortical dorsal factors in the Xenopus egg with the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 93-102

  Marikawa, Yusuke ^a   Elinson, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

catenin; Axin; Dorsal axis factor; Vegetal cortical cytoplasm; Wnt catenin signaling pathway; Xenopus; XGSK3

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; EMBRYO; GENE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOPUS;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BODY PATTERNING; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; HMGB PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032747226     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00210-5     Document Type: Article

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