Wnt glycoproteins regulate the expression of FoxNI, the genes defective in nude mice

Nature Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1102-1108

  Balciunaite, Gina ^a   Keller, Marcel P ^a   Balciunaite, Egle ^a   Piali, Luca ^a   Zuklys, Saulius ^a   Mathieu, Yves D ^a   Gill, Jason ^b   Boyd, Richard ^b   Sussman, Daniel J ^c   Holländer, Georg A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXN1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LYMPHOID CELL; MICROENVIRONMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS FUNCTION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; 3T3 CELLS; ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; AUTOCRINE COMMUNICATION; BETA CATENIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMONES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GLYCOPROTEINS; LYMPHOID ENHANCER-BINDING FACTOR 1; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLINES; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0036852151     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni850     Document Type: Article

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