The Transcription Factors L-Sox5 and Sox6 Are Essential for Cartilage Formation

Developmental Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 277-290

  Smits, Patrick ^b   Li, Ping ^b   Mandel, Jennifer ^b   Zhang, Zhaoping ^b   Deng, Jian Ming ^b   Behringer, Richard R ^b   De Crombrugghe, Benoit ^b   Lefebvre, Véronique ^a,b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SOX5 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SOX6 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HEREDITARY MULTIPLE EXOSTOSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CARTILAGE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHONDROCYTES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXOSTOSES, MULTIPLE HEREDITARY; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0035431807     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(01)00003-X     Document Type: Article

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