Xenopus crescent encoding a Frizzled-like domain is expressed in the Spemann organizer and pronephros

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 243-246

  Shibata, Mikihito ^a   Ono, Hirofumi ^a   Hikasa, Hiroki ^a   Shinga, Jun ^b   Taira, Masanori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crescent; Expression pattern screen; Frizzled like domain; Ldbl; Prechordal plate; Pronephros; Siamois; Spemann organizer; Xenopus laevis; Xlim 1

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CRESCENT PROTEIN, XENOPUS; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHICK EMBRYO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0034266651     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00399-3     Document Type: Article

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