Identification of a Nonchordate-Type Classic Cadherin in Vertebrates: Chicken Hz-Cadherin Is Expressed in Horizontal Cells of the Neural Retina and Contains a Nonchordate-Specific Domain Complex

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 229, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 899-906

  Tanabe, Koji ^a,b   Takeichi, Masatoshi ^a,b   Nakagawa, Shinichi ^a  

^a RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Cadherin; Chicken; Chordate; EGF; Evolution; Horizontal cell; Laminin; Nonchordate; Pax6; Retina; Type III

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHICKEN HZ CADHERIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; LAMININ; LAMININ A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CHICKEN; CHORDATA; CULTURE MEDIUM; EC DOMAIN; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LAMININ; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; GALLUS GALLUS; TETRAODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1842509205     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.10493     Document Type: Article

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