Isolation and Developmental Expression of Mitf in Xenopus laevis

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 107-113

  Kumasaka, Mayuko ^a   Sato, Hiraku ^a   Sato, Shigeru ^b   Yajima, Ichiro ^a   Yamamoto, Hiroaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Melanin; Melanocyte; Melanophore; Microphthalmia; Mitf; Pigment cell; Retinal pigment epithelium; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; MELANIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO; EPIPHYSIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; MELANOCYTE; MELANOPHORE; MITF GENE; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENT CELL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XLMITFALPHA GENE; XLMITFBETA GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOPHORES; MICE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAL CREST; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

MELANOPHORA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 2142765995     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20019     Document Type: Article

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