Cloning and expression of xSix3, the Xenopus homologue of murine Six3

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 327-330

  Zhou, Xunlei ^a   Hollemann, Thomas ^b   Pieler, T ^b   Gruss, Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b Inst F Biochem Molec Z   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clawed toad; Cloning; Development; Diencephalon; Eye; Forebrain; Homology; Hypophysis; Pitui tary; Retina; Sine oculis; Visual system

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELENCEPHALON; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANURA; AVES; DANIO RERIO; MURINAE; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033999595     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00270-1     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Bovolenta P., Mallamaci A., Puelles L., Boncinelli E. Expression pattern of cSix3, a member of the Six/sine oculis family of transcription factors. Mech. Dev. 70:1998;201-203.
2. Chow R.L., Altmann C.R., Lang R.A., Hemmati-Brivanlou A. Pax6 induces ectopic eyes in a vertebrate. Development. 126:1999;4213-4222.
3. Granadino B., Gallardo M.E., Lopez-Rios J., Sanz R., Ramos C., Ayuso C., Bovolenta P., Rodriguez de Cordoba S. Genomic cloning, structure, expression pattern, and chromosomal location of the human SIX3 gene. Genomics. 55:1999;100-105.
4. Harland R.M. In situ hybridization: an improved whole-mount method for Xenopus embryos. Methods Cell Biol. 36:1991;685-695.
5. Leppert, G.S., Yang, J.M., Sundin, O.H., 1999. Sequence and location of SIX3, a homeobox gene expressed in the human eye [see comments]. Ophthalmic Genet. 20, 7-21.
6. Loosli F., Köster R.W., Carl M., Krone A., Wittbrodt J. Six3, a medaka homologue of the Drosophila homeobox gene sine oculis is expressed in the anterior embryonic shield and the developing eye. Mech. Dev. 74:1998;159-164.
7. Oliver G., Mailhos A., Wehr R., Copeland N.G., Jenkins N.A., Gruss P. Six3, a murine homologue of the sine oculis gene, demarcates the most anterior border of the developing neural plate and is expressed during eye development. Development. 121:1995;4045-4055.
8. Sambrook J., Fritsch E.F., Maniatis T. Molecular Cloning. A Laboratory Manual. 1989;Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor.
9. Seo H.C., Drivenes O., Ellingsen S., Fjose A. Expression of two zebrafish homologues of the murine Six3 gene demarcates the initial eye primordia. Mech. Dev. 73:1998;45-57.
10. Seo H.C., Drivenes O., Ellingsen S., Fjose A. Transient expression of a novel Six3-related zebrafish gene during gastrulation and eye formation. Gene. 216:1998;39-46.