High-throughput functional screen of mouse gastrula cDNA libraries reveals new components of endoderm and mesoderm specification

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 44-53

  Chiao, Eric ^a   Leonard, Jeff ^a   Dickinson, Kari ^a   Baker, Julie C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GENE LIBRARY; GENES; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; RNA, COMPLEMENTARY; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 12744271860     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.2993405     Document Type: Article

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