pMesogenin1 and 2 function directly downstream of Xtbx6 in Xenopus somitogenesis and myogenesis

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3749-3761

  Tazumi, Shunsuke ^a   Yabe, Shigeharu ^a   Yokoyama, Jun ^a   Aihara, Yuko ^a   Uchiyama, Hideho ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

bHLH; Body wall muscle; pMesogenin1 Mespo; Segmentation; T box; tbx6

Indexed keywords

T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BINDING SITES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; SOMITES; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 57149086888     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21791     Document Type: Article

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