Regulation of apoptosis in the Xenopus embryo by Bix3

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 4611-4622

  Trindade, Margarida ^a   Messenger, Nigel ^b   Papin, Catherine ^a,c   Grimmer, Donna ^b   Fairclough, Lynne ^a   Tada, Masazumi ^a,d   Smith, James C ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cell adhesion; Embryogenesis; Gastrulation; Morphogenesis; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN BIX1; PROTEIN BIX2; PROTEIN BIX3; SMAD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIX1 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; THREONINE; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIS ISOMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; NICK END LABELING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THREONINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0642373728     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00489     Document Type: Article

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