Review article: Patterning the expression of a tissue-specific transcription factor in embryogenesis: HNF1α gene activation during Xenopus development

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 64, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 7-17

  Pogge V Strandmann, Elke ^a   Nastos, Aristotelis ^a   Holewa, Beatrix ^a   Senkel, Sabine ^a   Weber, Heike ^a   Ryffel, Gerhart U ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; HNF1 ; Tissue specific transcription factor; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ALBUMIN; MESSENGER RNA; RETINOIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ACTIVIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1ALPHA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1BETA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4; INHIBIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; TCF1 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; TCF2 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION;

ACTIVINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1-ALPHA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1-BETA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4; INHIBINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0342547254     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00060-9     Document Type: Review

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