GATA4, 5 and 6 mediate TGFβ maintenance of endodermal gene expression in Xenopus embryos

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 763-774

  Afouda, Boni Anatole ^a,b   Ciau Uitz, Aldo ^a,c   Patient, Roger ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activin; Animal caps; Cycloheximide; Emetine; Endoderm; GATA factors; Gut; HNF1 ; HNF3 ; Liver; Nodal related; Sox17 ; TGF ; Transcription; VegT; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; NUCLEAR FACTOR I; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX17ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENDODERMIS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMETINE; ENDODERM; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GATA5 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GATA6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; LIVER; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 14844352445     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01647     Document Type: Article

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