Misexpression of polycomb-group proteins in Xenopus alters anterior neural development and represses neural target genes

Developmental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 375-387

  Yoshitake, Yoshino ^a,b   Howard, Tiffani L ^a   Christian, Jan L ^a   Hollenberg, Stanley M ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CNS; Epigenesis; Polycomb group; Polycomblike; Repression; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; MESENCEPHALON; MICROINJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS; ZYGOTE;

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033571030     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9473     Document Type: Article

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