XSIP1, a Xenopus zinc finger/homeodomain encoding gene highly expressed during early neural development

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 94, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 189-193

  Van Grunsven, Leo A ^a   Papin, Catherine ^b   Avalosse, Bernard ^c   Opdecamp, Karin ^c   Huylebroeck, Danny ^a   Smith, James C ^b   Bellefroid, Eric J ^c  

^a Differentiation Devmt ^*  (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

EF1; Neural induction; Smad interacting protein; Smad interacting protein 1; Transcriptional repressor; Xenopus laevis; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SMAD PROTEINS; SMAD2 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034212389     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00318-X     Document Type: Article

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