The T-box transcription factor Eomesodermin acts upstream of Mesp1 to specify cardiac mesoderm during mouse gastrulation

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1084-1092

  Costello, Ita ^a   Pimeisl, Inga Marie ^b   Dräger, Sarah ^b   Bikoff, Elizabeth K ^a   Robertson, Elizabeth J ^a   Arnold, Sebastian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; EOMESODERMIN; PROTEIN FOXH1; PROTEIN MESP1; PROTEIN NODAL; SMAD4 PROTEIN; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CARDIAC MESODERM; CARDIVASCULAR PROGENITOR CELL; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDODERM; EOMES GENE; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GASTRULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCARDIUM; NODAL PROTEIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 80052511434     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2304     Document Type: Article

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