Evolutionarily Ancient Association of the FoxJ1 Transcription Factor with the Motile Ciliogenic Program

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Vij, Shubha ^a   Rink, Jochen C ^b   Ho, Hao Kee ^a   Babu, Deepak ^a,c,d   Eitel, Michael ^e,h   Narasimhan, Vijayashankaranarayanan ^a   Tiku, Varnesh ^b   Westbrook, Jody ^f   Schierwater, Bernd ^e   Roy, Sudipto ^a,c,d,g  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXJ1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CILIARY MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPISTHOKONTA; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTH; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXJ1 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CILIA; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MORPHOGENESIS; VERTEBRATES; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84870712341     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003019     Document Type: Article

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