Functional dissection of the paired domain of Pax6 reveals molecular mechanisms of coordinating neurogenesis and proliferation

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1123-1136

  Walcher, Tessa ^a   Xie, Qing ^b   Sun, Jian ^b   Irmler, Martin ^c   Beckers, Johannes ^a,c   Öztürk, Timucin ^a   Niessing, Dierk ^a   Stoykova, Anastassia ^d   Cvekl, Ales ^b   Ninkovic, Jovica ^a,e   Götz, Magdalena ^a,e,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f Germany 3 Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortex development; Mouse; Radial glia; Transcriptional regulator

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; DNA BINDING; FOREBRAIN; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EYE PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEUROGENESIS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84873723436     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.082875     Document Type: Article

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