Myogenic regulatory factors: Redundant or specific functions? Lessons from Xenopus

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 231, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 662-670

  Chanoine, Christophe ^a,b   Della Gaspera, Bruno ^a   Charbonnier, Frédéric ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Muscle development; MyoD; Myogenesis; Myogenic factors; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MYOD PROTEIN; MYOGENIC FACTOR;

CHROMATIN; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TRANSACTIVATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS; XENOPUS;

EID: 11144269056     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20174     Document Type: Review

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