β-catenin/Tcf-regulated transcription prior to the midblastula transition

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 5743-5752

  Yang, Jing ^a   Tan, Change ^a   Darken, Rachel S ^b   Wilson, Paul A ^b   Klein, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin; LEF; Lithium; Midblastula transition; Tcf; Transcription; Wnt; Xenopus embryo

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPINE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BLASTULA; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, DOMINANT; HMGB PROTEINS; LITHIUM; LUCIFERASES; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036928716     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00150     Document Type: Article

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