The homeobox gene mirror links EGF signalling to embryonic dorso-ventral axis formation through Notch activation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 429-433

  Jordan, Katherine C ^a,b   Clegg, Nigel J ^b   Blasi, Jennifer A ^b   Morimoto, Alyssa M ^b   Sen, Jonaki ^c   Stein, David ^c   McNeill, Helen ^d   Deng, Wu Min ^b   Tworoger, Michael ^b   Ruohola Baker, Hannele ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; OOGENESIS; OVUM; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034029125     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/74294     Document Type: Article

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