Differentiation of zebrafish melanophores depends on transcription factors AP2 Alpha and AP2 Epsilon

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  van Otterloo, Eric ^a   Li, Wei ^b   Bonde, Gregory ^a   Day, Kristopher M ^a   Hsu, Mei Yu ^c   Cornell, Robert A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2 ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2 EPSILON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MELANOCYTE; MELANOPHORE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOPHORES; MICE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 78049427561     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001122     Document Type: Article

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