Cloning and expression of a novel zinc finger gene, Fez, transcribed in the forebrain of Xenopus and mouse embryos

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 201-204

  Matsuo Takasaki, Mami ^a   Lim, Jae H ^a   Beanan, Maureen J ^a   Sato, Sheryl M ^a   Sargent, Thomas D ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Forebrain; Mouse embryos; Neural genes; Neural induction; Neurogenesis; Xenopus laevis; Zinc finger genes

Indexed keywords

NOGGIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY BULB; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELENCEPHALON; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

DANIO RERIO; TERMINALIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034191909     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00264-1     Document Type: Article

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