Characterization and function of the bHLH-O protein XHes2: Insight into the mechanism controlling retinal cell fate decision

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 4097-4108

  Sölter, Marion ^a   Locker, Morgane ^b   Boy, Sébastien ^b   Taelman, Vincent ^c   Bellefroid, Eric J ^c   Perron, Muriel ^b   Pieler, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bHLH; Cell cycle; Gliogenesis; Hes2; Neurogenesis; Retina; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL FATE; EMBRYO; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33751055189     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02567     Document Type: Article

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