Maternal control of vertebrate dorsoventral axis formation and epiboly by the POU domain protein Spg/Pou2/Oct4

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2757-2770

  Reim, Gerlinde ^a,b   Brand, Michael ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Axis formation; Bmp; Dorsoventral patterning; Epiboly; Maternal effect; Oct4; Pou2; Spg; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CHORDIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NOGGIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GROWTH REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH; ZYGOTE;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL POLARITY; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM LAYERS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOGENESIS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33746823300     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02391     Document Type: Article

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