Expression cloning of Xantivin, a Xenopus lefty/antivin-related gene, involved in the regulation of activin signaling during mesoderm induction

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 3-14

  Tanegashima, Kousuke ^a   Yokota, Chika ^a   Takahashi, Shuji ^a   Asashima, Makoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activin signaling; Antivin; Feedback inhibitor; Lefty; Mesoderm induction; Nodal related genes; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACTIVINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GASTRULA; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INHIBINS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0033728599     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00465-2     Document Type: Article

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