A concerted action of Engrailed and Gooseberry-Neuro in neuroblast 6-4 is triggering the formation of embryonic posterior commissure bundles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Colomb, Sophie ^a   Joly, Willy ^a,b   Bonneaud, Nathalie ^a   Maschat, Florence ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ENGRAILED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GOOSEBERRY NEURO; ENGRAIL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; GSB PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH REGULATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CORD; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 48249144789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002197     Document Type: Article

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