A novel repressor-type homeobox gene, ved, is involved in dharma/bozozok-mediated dorsal organizer formation in zebrafish

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 125-138

  Shimizu, Takashi ^a,b   Yamanaka, Yojiro ^a   Nojima, Hideaki ^a   Yabe, Taijiro ^a   Hibi, Masahiko ^a,b   Hirano, Toshio ^a,c,d  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^c RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chordino; Dharma bozozok; Goosecoid; Ved; Vent vega2; Vox vega1; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN BOZOZOK; PROTEIN DHARMA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DHARMA PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VED PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; VENT PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; VOX PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VED GENE; VEGA1 GENE; VEGA2 GENE; VENT GENE; VOX GENE; ZEBRA FISH; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERODIAGNOSIS; TRANSACTIVATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

DANIO RERIO;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS PROTEIN VMW65; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0036804621     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(02)00243-5     Document Type: Article

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