Xenopus Enhancer of Zeste (XEZ); an anteriorly restricted polycomb gene with a role in neural patterning

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 157-167

  Barnett, M W ^a   Seville, R A ^a   Nijjar, S ^a   Old, R W ^a   Jones, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior neural plate; Anteroposterior patterning; Enhancer of zeste; enx 1; EZ(H)2; Neural induction; Polycomb group; Repression; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MARKER; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRANCHIAL ARCH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENHANCER REGION; EVOLUTION; EYE; FOREBRAIN; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAMMAL; MARKER GENE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION SITE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035056849     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(01)00304-5     Document Type: Article

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