Zygotic Wnt activity is required for Brachyury expression in the early Xenopus laevis embryo

Developmental Biology

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 112-127

  Vonica, Alin ^a   Gumbiner, Barry M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Activin; eFGF; Induction; Mesoderm; Repression; Tcf; VegT; Wnt; Xbra; Zygotic

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; LIGAND; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRACHYURY GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0036387287     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2002.0786     Document Type: Article

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