Analysis of the Tcf-3 promoter during early development of Xenopus

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 231, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 510-517

  Spieker, Nicole ^a   Peterson, Josi ^a   Reneman, Stefan ^a   Destrée, Olivier ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Promoter; Transgenesis; Xenopus laevis; Xenopus tropicalis; XTcf 3

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BRANCHIAL ARCH; ENZYME ASSAY; EPISOME; EXON; EYE; GASTRULA; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; INTRON; MESENCEPHALON; MESENCHYME; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOMITE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EXONS; GASTRULA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENOME; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRONS; LUCIFERASES; OOCYTES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES; XENOPUS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 6944240019     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20150     Document Type: Article

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