Ras-dva, a member of novel family of small GTPases, is required for the anterior ectoderm patterning in the Xenopus laevis embryo

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 485-494

  Tereshina, Maria B ^a   Zaraisky, Andrey G ^a   Novoselov, Vladimir V ^a,b  

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

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Forebrain; Neural crest; Neural plate; Patterning of the neural plate; Small GTPase; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN RAS DVA; RAS PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOWN REGULATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FOREBRAIN; GASTRULATION; GENE TARGETING; INJECTION; MUTANT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES; UPREGULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CARRIER PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; RAS PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33244466501     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02207     Document Type: Article

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