The Xenopus Ets transcription factor XER81 is a target of the FGF signaling pathway

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-65

  Münchberg, Susanne R ^a   Steinbeisser, Herbert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ets transcription factors; FGF signaling; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; ONCOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE; FEMALE; GASTRULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037730776     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00193-2     Document Type: Article

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