Repressor dimerization in the zebrafish somitogenesis clock

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 0293-0303

  Cinquin, Olivier ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMERIZATION; PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION;

DIMERIZATIONS; GENES EXPRESSION; HETERODIMERS; PARAXIAL; POSITIONAL INFORMATION; SIMPLE++; SOMITOGENESIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSORS; ZEBRAFISH;

CLOCKS;

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HETERODIMER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 13.2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; DIMERIZATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REPRESSOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BODY PATTERNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 33847316015     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030032     Document Type: Article

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