Goosecoid and Mix.1 repress Brachyury expression and are required for head formation in Xenopus

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1769-1779

  Latinkic B V ^a   Smith, J C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brachyury; Goosecoid; Mesoderm; Mix.1; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO POLARITY; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEAD; INTESTINE MALFORMATION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODERM; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HEAD; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032910240     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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