Six1 promotes a placodal fate within the lateral neurogenic ectoderm by functioning as both a transcriptional activator and repressor

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 5871-5881

  Brugmann, Samantha A ^a   Pandur, Petra D ^a,c   Kenyon, Kristy L ^b,d   Pignoni, Francesca ^b   Moody, Sally A ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell fate determination; dlx5; dlx6; foxD3; Keratin; Neural crest; Patterning; Pre placodal ectoderm; sox2; sox3; Xenopus; zic2

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; NEURAL CREST; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WILD TYPE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL LINEAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECTODERM; EPIDERMIS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HMGB PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KERATINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL CREST; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 12344249105     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01516     Document Type: Article

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