Patterning the forebrian: FoxA4a/Pintallavis and Xvent2 determine the posterior limit of Xanf1 expression in the neural plate

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2329-2338

  Martynova, Natalia ^a   Eroshkin, Fedor ^a   Ermakova, Galina ^a   Bayramov, Andrey ^a   Gray, Jessica ^b   Grainger, Robert ^b   Zaraisky, Andrey ^a  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior posterior patterning; Flourescent proteins; Homeobox; Neural plate; Regulation of spatial expression; Transgenic embryos; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXA4A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR XANF1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR XVENT2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; PINTALLAVIS PROTEIN, XENOPUS; PRIMER DNA; XANF 1 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; XANF-1 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEIN; XVENT 2 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; XVENT-2 PROTEIN, XENOPUS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FOREBRAIN; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSLATION REGULATION; TRUNK; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ECTODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROINJECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICROINJECTIONS; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLINES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROSENCEPHALON; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 3042796952     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01133     Document Type: Article

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