Myoblasts incompetent encodes a zinc finger transcription factor required to specify fusion-competent myoblasts in Drosophila

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 133-141

  Ruiz Gómez, Mar ^a   Coutts, Nikola ^a   Suster, Maximiliano L ^a   Landgraf, Matthias ^a   Bate, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell fusion; Drosophila; Myoblasts; Myoblasts incompetent; Myogenesis; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; VERTEBRATE; VISCERA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; MUTATION; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036340522     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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