Convergence of a head-field selector Otx2 and Notch signaling: A mechanism for lens specification

Development

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 249-258

  Ogino, Hajime ^a   Fisher, Marilyn ^a   Grainger, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competence; Genomics; Induction; Lens; Notch; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXE3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LENS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 38949142986     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.009548     Document Type: Article

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