A tissue restricted role for the Xenopus Jun N-terminal kinase kinase kinase MLK2 in cement gland and pronephric tubule differentiation

Developmental Biology

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 200-214

  Poitras, Luc ^a   Bisson, Nicolas ^a   Islam, Nazrul ^a   Moss, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

(MLK2, MST, MAP3K10); Cement gland; JNK SAPK1; Mixed lineage kinase 2; Programmed cell death; Pronephros; Signal transduction; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; JUN N TERMINAL KINASE KINASE KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE; MIXED LINEAGE KINASE 2; PROTEIN KINASE; RHO KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ELONGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; GASTRULA; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZYGOTE;

MAMMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037442850     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-1606(02)00040-4     Document Type: Article

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