The mouse homeobox gene Not is required for caudal notochord development and affected by the truncate mutation

Genes and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1725-1736

  Ben Abdelkhalek, Hanaa ^a   Beckers, Anja ^a   Schuster Gossler, Karin ^a   Pavlova, Maria N ^a,e   Burkhardt, Hannelore ^a   Lickert, Heiko ^b   Rossant, Janet ^b   Reinhardt, Richard ^c   Schalkwyk, Leonard C ^c,f   Müller, Ines ^c   Herrmann, Bernhard G ^c   Ceolin, Marcelo ^d,g   Rivera Pomar, Rolando ^d,h   Gossler, Achim ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e OMEROS CORPORATION   (United States)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g Lab de Biofis Molec y Proteomica   (Argentina)

^h UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Homeodomain protein; Not gene; Notochord development

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE;

ALLELE; ALLELISM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FLOATING HEAD GENE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMEOBOX; HOMOZYGOSITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOT GENE; NOTOCHORD; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME WALKING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENE COMPONENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NOTOCHORD; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TAIL;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3142723247     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.303504     Document Type: Article

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