Vax1/2 Genes Counteract Mitf-Induced Respecification of the Retinal Pigment Epithelium

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Ou, Jingxing ^a   Bharti, Kapil ^a,b   Nodari, Alessandro ^a   Bertuzzi, Stefano ^a,c   Arnheiter, Heinz ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c American Society for Cell Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; JAGGED1; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NOTCH RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VAX1 GENE; VAX2 GENE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MUTATION; NEUROPEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84875025063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059247     Document Type: Article

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