Mixer/Bon and FoxH1/Sur have overlapping and divergent roles in nodal signaling and mesendoderm induction

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 5589-5599

  Kunwar, Prabhat S ^a   Zimmerman, Steven ^a   Bennett, James T ^a   Chen, Yu ^a   Whitman, Malcolm ^b   Schier, Alexander F ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoderm; FoxH1; Mesoderm; Mix; Nodal; Smad; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

BONNIE AND CLYDE PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MIXER PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; SCHMALSPUR PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXH1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; MESODERM; MUTANT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD2 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0348013150     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00803     Document Type: Review

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