Involvement of Tcf/Lef in establishing cell types along the animal-vegetal axis of sea urchins

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 73-81

  Huang, Ling ^a   Li, Xiaotao ^a   El Hodiri, Heithem M ^a   Dayal, Sandeep ^a   Wikramanayake, Athula H ^a   Klein, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell fate determination; Sea urchins embryos; Tcf Lef; Catenin

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; PROTEIN LEF; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL FATE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL TYPE; CLONING; DEVELOPMENT; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION; MESENCHYME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEA URCHIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS;

EID: 0033956204     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050013     Document Type: Article

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