Foxa1 and Foxa2 positively and negatively regulate Shh signalling to specify ventral midbrain progenitor identity

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 128, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 90-103

  Mavromatakis, Yannis E ^a   Lin, Wei ^a   Metzakopian, Emmanouil ^a   Ferri, Anna L M ^a   Yan, Carol H ^a   Sasaki, Hiroshi ^b   Whisett, Jeff ^c   Ang, Siew Lan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell fate specification; Dorsal ventral patterning; Forkhead genes; Gli; Midbrain; Nkx2.2

Indexed keywords

HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3ALPHA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; PROTEIN PATCHED 1; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.2; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC REGULATION; INHIBITION KINETICS; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-ALPHA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-BETA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 79751537538     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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