Integration of anteroposterior and dorsoventral regulation of Phox2b transcription in cranial motoneuron progenitors by homeodomain proteins

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 4071-4083

  Samad, Omar Abdel ^a   Geisen, Marc J ^a   Caronia, Giuliana ^b   Varlet, Isabelle ^c,g   Zappavigna, Vincenzo ^b,d   Ericson, Johan ^e   Goridis, Christo ^f   Rijli, Filippo M ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b San Raf faele Institute   (Italy)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^g LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AP and DV integration; Derepression; Hindbrain; Hoxb1; Hoxb2; Motoneuron; Nkx2.2; Pbx1a; PH and P M binding sites; Prep1; Ternary complex; Transcriptional activation

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; PROTEIN NKX2; PROTEIN PBX; PROTEIN PREP1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PHOX2B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL FATE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMERE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4544227735     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01282     Document Type: Article

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