A gene encoding a new ONECUT class homeodomain protein in the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi functions in the differentiation and specification of neural cells in ascidian embryogenesis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 37-48

  Sasakura, Yasunori ^a   Makabe, Kazuhiro W ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; HNF 6; Homeodomain; Neural cell; ONECUT

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 6; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LAC OPERON; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAL CREST; NEURONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUBULIN; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034977172     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(01)00352-5     Document Type: Article

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