Zebrafish foxe3: Roles in ocular lens morphogenesis through interaction with pitx3

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 761-782

  Shi, Xiaohai ^a   Luo, Yiying ^a   Howley, Sinéad ^a   Dzialo, Agnes ^a   Foley, Sarah ^a   Hyde, David R ^a   Vihtelic, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior epithelial cell; Eye lens; Fox transcription factor; Lens development; Pitx3; Secondary fiber cell

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXE 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WINGED HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXON; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETINA CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXE3 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX3 GENE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EYE PROTEINS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33750010634     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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