Synthesis of hyaluronan of distinctly different chain length is regulated by differential expression of Xhas1 and 2 during early development of Xenopus laevis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 275-278

  Köprunner, Marion ^a   Müllegger, Johannes ^a   Lepperdinger, Günter ^a  

^a Institute of Molecular Biology Salzburg   (Austria)

Author keywords

Early development; Hyaluronan distribution; Hyaluronan synthesis; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; HYALURONIC ACID; HYBRID PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM LAYER; HEART; INTESTINE; LIVER; MESENCHYME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HYALURONIC ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; TRANSFERASES; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0242494693     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00238-5     Document Type: Article

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