Region-specific activation of the Xenopus Brachyury promoter involves active repression in ectoderm and endoderm: A study using transgenic frog embryos

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2729-2739

  Lerchner, Walter ^a   Latinkic, Branko V ^a   Remacle, Jacques E ^b   Huylebroeck, Danny ^b   Smith, James C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brachyury; Mesoderm; Repression; SIP1; Transcriptional regulation; Transgenesis; Xbra; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENDODERM; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0033917985     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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