Sox6, jack of all trades: A versatile regulatory protein in vertebrate development

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 240, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1311-1321

  Hagiwara, Nobuko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Sox family of transcription factors; Sox6; Terminal differentiation; Vertebrate development

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX6;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; ECTODERM; ENDODERM; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; MESODERM; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TESTIS; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE TYPES; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOXD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955738633     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22639     Document Type: Review

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