The Pitx2c N-terminal domain is a critical interaction domain required for asymmetric morphogenesis

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 238, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2459-2470

  Simard, Annie ^a   Di Giorgio, Luciano ^b   Amen, Melanie ^c   Westwood, Ashley ^c   Amendt, Brad A ^c   Ryan, Aimee K ^a,b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chick embryo; Heart looping; Homeodomain; Left right patterning; Pitx2c

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; LEUCINE; PROCOLLAGEN; PROCOLLAGEN LYSYL HYDROXYLASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUCINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROCOLLAGEN-LYSINE, 2-OXOGLUTARATE 5-DIOXYGENASE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

SPONDIAS PURPUREA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349338915     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22062     Document Type: Article

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