Six3 and Six6 activity is modulated by members of the groucho family

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 185-195

  López Ríos, Javier ^a   Tessmar, Kristin ^b,c   Loosli, Felix ^b   Wittbrodt, Joachim ^b   Bovolenta, Paola ^a  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aes; Eye; Medaka; Tle1; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FISH; GENE ACTIVITY; MODULATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORYZIAS; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ORYZIAS; ORYZIAS LATIPES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037235072     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00185     Document Type: Review

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