The β-catenin/VegT-regulated early zygotic gene Xnr5 is a direct target of SOX3 regulation

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 5609-5624

  Zhang, Chi ^a   Basta, Tamara ^a   Jensen, Eric D ^a   Klymkowsky, M W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin VegT; Nodal related protein; SOX3; Xenopus; Xnr5

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN VEGT; PROTEIN XNR5; RNA; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP BOX DOMAIN; MESODERM; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZYGOTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA CATENIN; BODY PATTERNING; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HELA CELLS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; OOCYTES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0344925241     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00798     Document Type: Review

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