A directional Wnt/β-catenin-Sox2-proneural pathway regulates the transition from proliferation to differentiation in the Xenopus retina

Development

Volumn 136, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 3289-3299

  Agathocleous, Michalis ^a   Iordanova, Ilina ^a   Willardsen, Minde I ^b   Xue, Xiao Yan ^a   Vetter, Monica L ^b   Harris, William A ^a   Moore, Kathryn B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuron; Progenitor; Proneural; Retina; Sox; Wnt; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; WNT PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN PROTEIN, XENOPUS; BETA-CATENIN PROTEIN, XENOPUS; SOX2 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; GLIA CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RETINA; RETINA CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BETA CATENIN; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROGENESIS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 70349902893     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.040451     Document Type: Article

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