Divergent functions of two ancient Hydra Brachyury paralogues suggest specific roles for their C-terminal domains in tissue fate induction

Development

Volumn 134, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 4187-4197

  Bielen, Holger ^a   Oberleitner, Sabine ^b   Marcellini, Sylvain ^c,d   Gee, Lydia ^e   Lemaire, Patrick ^c   Bode, Hans R ^e   Rupp, Ralph ^b   Technau, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal cap; Brachyury; Evolution; Gene duplication; Head formation; Hydra; Mesoderm; Regeneration; Structure function analysis; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

HYDRA BRACHYURY PROTEIN 1; HYDRA BRACHYURY PROTEIN 2; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BUDDING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM LAYER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGENERATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; HYDRA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 38349028678     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.010173     Document Type: Article

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