Involvement of the small GTPases XRhoA and XRnd1 in cell adhesion and head formation in early Xenopus development

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 5339-5351

  Wünnenberg Stapleton, Katrin ^a,c   Blitz, Ira L ^c   Hashimoto, Chikara ^b,c   Cho, Ken W Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion; Gastrulation; Pattern formation; Rho; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEAD; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOMITE; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTORS; CELL ADHESION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, DOMINANT; HEAD; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037527744     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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