Distinct transcriptional regulation and phylogenetic divergence of human LEFTY genes

Genes to Cells

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 343-357

  Yashiro, Kenta ^a,b   Saijoh, Yukio ^a   Sakuma, Rui ^a   Tada, Masatomo ^b   Tomita, Naohiro ^b   Amano, Kenji ^c   Matsuda, Youichi ^c   Monden, Morito ^b   Okada, Shintaro ^b   Hamada, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PSEUDOGENE; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 6744229777     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2000.00329.x     Document Type: Article

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