Null Mutation of the Lmo4 Gene or a Combined Null Mutation of the Lmo1/ Lmo3 Genes Causes Perinatal Lethality, and Lmo4 Controls Neural Tube Development in Mice

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2063-2073

  Tse, E ^a,b   Smith, A J H ^a,c   Hunt, S ^a,d   Lavenir, I ^a   Forster, A ^a   Warren, A J ^a   Grutz, G ^a,e   Foroni, L ^a,f   Carlton, M B L ^a,g   Colledge, W H ^a,h   Boehm, T ^a,i   Rabbitts, T H ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g CRC Wellcome Institute   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; LIM PROTEIN; LMO1 PROTEIN; LMO2 PROTEIN; LMO4 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANENCEPHALUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; COMPOUND NULL MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXENCEPHALY; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HEMATOPOIESIS; LMO1 GENE; LMO3 GENE; LMO4 GENE; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; NULL MUTATION; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; T CELL LEUKEMIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 10744229888     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.5.2063-2073.2004     Document Type: Article

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