Biphasic wnt8a expression is achieved through interactions of multiple regulatory inputs

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 241, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1062-1075

  Narayanan, Anand ^a   Lekven, Arne C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachyury; Enhancer; Mesoderm induction; Nodal; Transcriptional regulation; Vertebrate; Wnt8a; Zbtb4, embryonic margin; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN NODAL; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXH1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT8A PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; GASTRULATION; GENE LOCUS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; TELEOST; TRANSGENICS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BODY PATTERNING; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NODAL PROTEIN; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84861198531     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.23787     Document Type: Article

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