Genetic ablation of FLRT3 reveals a novel morphogenetic function for the anterior visceral endoderm in suppressing mesoderm differentiation

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 3349-3362

  Egea, Joaquim ^a   Erlacher, Christian ^a   Montanez, Eloi ^b   Burtscher, Ingo ^c   Yamagishi, Satoru ^a   Heß, Martin ^d   Hampel, Falko ^a   Sanchez, Rodrigo ^a,d   Rodriguez Manzaneque, Maria Teresa ^b   Bösl, Michael R ^a   Fässler, Reinhard ^b   Lickert, Heiko ^c   Klein, Rüdiger ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior visceral endoderm; Basement membrane; EMT; Epithelial to mesenchymal transition; FLRT3; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN FLRT3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLAST CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LOSS; CELL POLARITY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; EPITHELIAL TO MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MARKER GENE; MESODERM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; UPREGULATION; VISCERA;

ANIMALS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MORPHOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 57749107817     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.486708     Document Type: Article

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