Zebrafish stat3 is expressed in restricted tissues during embryogenesis and stat1 rescues cytokine signaling in a STAT1-deficient human cell line

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 352-370

  Oates, Andrew C ^a   Wollberg, Patrik ^e   Pratt, Stephen J ^b   Paw, Barry H ^b   Johnson, Stephen L ^c   Ho, Robert K ^a   Postlethwait, John H ^d   Zon, Leonard I ^b   Wilks, Andrew F ^f  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Blastula; Chromosome evolution; Cranial motor nuclei; Cranial neural crest; Cytokine; Degenerate oligonucleotide PCR; Development; Embryogenesis; Gene mapping; IL 6; In situ hybridization; Interferon ; Interferon ; JAK; Lateral line; Phosphotyrosine; Prechordal plate; Retinal ganglion cell; Sensory ganglia; Signal transduction; SIL 6; STAT; stat1; stat3; Synteny; Transcription factor; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; STAT1 PROTEIN; STAT2 PROTEIN; STAT4 PROTEIN; STAT5 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BLASTULA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SENSORY GANGLION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; JANUS KINASE 1; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAT1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFECTION; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 0032771170     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199908)215:4<352::AID-AJA7>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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