Transcriptional repressor Erf determines extraembryonic ectoderm differentiation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 5201-5213

  Papadaki, Chara ^a   Alexiou, Maria ^b   Cecena, Grace ^c   Verykokakis, Mihalis ^a   Bilitou, Aikaterini ^a   Cross, James C ^d   Oshima, Robert G ^c   Mavrothalassitis, George ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Institute of Immunology   (Greece)

^c BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN ERF; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHORIOALLANTOIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; GENE DELETION; HOMOZYGOSITY; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHORIOALLANTOIC MEMBRANE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS;

MUS;

EID: 34447529362     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.02237-06     Document Type: Article

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