Xenopus Xenf: An early endodermal nuclear factor that is regulated in a pathway distinct from Sox17 and Mix-related gene pathways

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 81-89

  Nakatani, Jin ^a   Mizuseki, Kenji ^a   Tsuda, Hiroshi ^a   Nakanishi, Shigetada ^a   Sasai, Yoshiki ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; Endoderm; Milk; Mixer; Sox17; Transcription factor; VegT; Vg1; Xenf; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PROTEINS; REPTILIAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034002453     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00274-9     Document Type: Article

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