Genetic and Functional Modularity of Hox Activities in the Specification of Limb-Innervating Motor Neurons

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lacombe, Julie ^a   Hanley, Olivia ^a   Jung, Heekyung ^a   Philippidou, Polyxeni ^a   Surmeli, Gulsen ^b   Grinstein, Jonathan ^a   Dasen, Jeremy S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; PROTEIN HOXC6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORELIMB; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE POOL; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOX4 GENE; HOX5 GENE; HOX6 GENE; HOX7 GENE; HOX8 GENE; HOXA6 GENE; HOXC6 GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; LATERAL MOTOR COLUMN; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXTREMITIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84873497161     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003184     Document Type: Article

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