Forkhead box N4 (Foxn4) activates Dll4-Notch signaling to suppress photoreceptor cell fates of early retinal progenitors

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

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Luo, Huijun ^a,e   Jin, Kangxin ^a   Xie, Zhenhui ^a   Qiu, Feng ^a   Li, Shengguo ^a   Zou, Min ^a   Cai, Li ^b   Hozumi, Katsuto ^c   Shima, David T ^d   Xiang, Mengqing ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Crx; Forkhead winged helix transcription factor; Otx2; Proneural bHLH gene

Indexed keywords

FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FORKHEAD BOX N4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABLATION THERAPY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EYE PROTEINS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RETINA; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84863289661     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115767109     Document Type: Article

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