A screen for targets of the Xenopus T-box gene Xbra

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 27-39

  Saka, Y ^a   Tada, M ^a   Smith, J C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brachyury; Pintallavis; Xbra; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; HOMEOBOX; HORMONE BINDING; MESODERM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DEXAMETHASONE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GLYCOPROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034192048     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00260-4     Document Type: Article

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