Hex is a transcriptional repressor that contributes to anterior identity and suppresses Spemann organiser function

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2303-2315

  Brickman, Joshua M ^a   Jones, C Michael ^a,b   Clements, Melanie ^a   Smith, J C ^a   Beddington, Rosa S P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior pattern; Endoderm; Homeobox; Organiser; Transcriptional repression; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BODY PATTERNING; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINE; COS CELLS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS PROTEIN VMW65; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MESODERM; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CERBERUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034124777     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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