An NF-κB and slug regulatory loop active in early vertebrate mesoderm

PLoS ONE

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Chi ^a   Carl, Timothy F ^a   Trudeau, Evan D ^a   Simmet, Thomas ^b   Klymkowsky, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 9; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MORPHOLINE; PROTEIN BCL X; PROTEIN REL2; PROTEIN REL3; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; BCL XL PROTEIN, XENOPUS; BCL-XL PROTEIN, XENOPUS; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN BCL 2; SNAIL FAMILY TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; UPREGULATION; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

GASTROPODA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; BCL-X PROTEIN; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MESODERM; NF-KAPPA B; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 34447339841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000106     Document Type: Article

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