Autoregulatory and repressive inputs localize Hydra Wnt3 to the head organizer

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 9137-9142

  Nakamura, Yukio ^a   Tsiairis, Charisios D ^a   Özbek, Suat ^a   Holstein, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axis formation; cis regulation; Enhancer; Molecular evolution; Regulatory DNAS

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; HYDRA WNT3 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; HYDRA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDRA; LIGANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; WNT PROTEINS;

BILATERIA; HYDRA; METAZOA;

EID: 79959365003     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018109108     Document Type: Article

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