Regulation of TCF3 by Wnt-dependent phosphorylation during vertebrate axis specification

Developmental Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 521-532

  Hikasa, Hiroki ^a   Ezan, Jerome ^a   Itoh, Keiji ^a   Li, Xiaotong ^b   Klymkowsky, Michael W ^c   Sokol, Sergei Y ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BETA TUBULIN; HOMEODOMAIN INTERACTING PROTEIN KINASE 2; PROTEIN TCF3; SMAD1 PROTEIN; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TCF7L1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TCF7L1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7 LIKE 1; WNT8A PROTEIN, XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CDX4 GENE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; VENT2 GENE; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONMAMMALIAN EMBRYO; PHOSPHORYLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BINDING SITES; BODY PATTERNING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7-LIKE 1 PROTEIN;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77957876629     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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