Xom interacts with and stimulates transcriptional activity of LEF1/TCFs: Implications for ventral cell fate determination during vertebrate embryogenesis

Cell Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 345-356

  Gao, Hong ^a,b   Wu, Bin ^a   Giese, Roger ^b   Zhu, Zhenglun ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

b catenin; BMP4; Dorsoventral patterning; LEF1 TCFs; Vent; Wnt; Xom

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LYMPHOID ENHANCER FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT8A PROTEIN, XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEIN; XVENT 2 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; XVENT-2 PROTEIN, XENOPUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LYMPHOID ENHANCER-BINDING FACTOR 1; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 34247396117     PISSN: 10010602     EISSN: 17487838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cr.2007.20     Document Type: Article

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