The Pou5f1/Pou3f-dependent but SoxB-independent regulation of conserved enhancer N2 initiates Sox2 expression during epiblast to neural plate stages in vertebrates

Developmental Biology

Volumn 352, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 354-366

  Iwafuchi Doi, Makiko ^a   Yoshida, Yuzo ^a,c   Onichtchouk, Daria ^b   Leichsenring, Manuel ^b   Driever, Wolfgang ^b   Takemoto, Tatsuya ^a   Uchikawa, Masanori ^a   Kamachi, Yusuke ^a   Kondoh, Hisato ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c SHISEIDO RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior neural plate; Chicken; Enhancer n2; Epiblast; ES cells; Mouse; POU factors; Sox2; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR N2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOXB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; MOUSE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMNIOTA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79953027572     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.12.027     Document Type: Article

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