Lef-1 and Tcf-3 transcription factors mediate tissue-specific Wnt signaling during Xenopus development

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 1941-1945

  Roël, Giulietta ^a   Hamilton, Fiona S ^b   Gent, Yoony ^a   Bain, Andrew A ^b   Destrée, Olivier ^a   Hoppler, Stefan ^b  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B PROTEIN; LYMPHOID ENHANCER FACTOR 1; MESSENGER RNA; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; T CELL FACTOR 3; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WNT PROTEIN; WNT8A PROTEIN, XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HMGB PROTEINS; LYMPHOID ENHANCER-BINDING FACTOR 1; MORPHOGENESIS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS; ZYGOTE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037137438     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01280-0     Document Type: Article

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