GATA-6 maintains BMP-4 and Nkx2 expression during cardiomyocyte precursor maturation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 4260-4273

  Peterkin, Tessa ^a   Gibson, Abigail ^a   Patient, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heart; Morpholinos; Transcription factors; Xenopus; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CELL PROTEIN; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; NKX2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; KNOCKOUT GENE; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; WILD TYPE; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENDODERM; GATA6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042466555     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg400     Document Type: Article

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