Williams Syndrome Transcription Factor is critical for neural crest cell function in Xenopus laevis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 129, Issue 9-12, 2012, Pages 324-338

  Barnett, Chris ^a   Yazgan, Oya ^a   Kuo, Hui Ching ^a   Malakar, Sreepurna ^a   Thomas, Trevor ^a   Fitzgerald, Amanda ^a   Harbour, William ^a   Henry, Jonathan J ^b   Krebs, Jocelyn E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

BAZ1b; Chromatin remodeler; Neural crest; Williams Syndrome; WSTF; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; EPHRIN RECEPTOR A4; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BMP4 GENE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; MALE; MRF4 GENE; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHH GENE; SLUG GENE; SNAIL GENE; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME; WILLIAMS SYNDROME TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GENE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAL CREST; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WILLIAMS SYNDROME; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84867894480     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: 18726356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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