Gbx2 functions as a transcriptional repressor to regulate the specification and morphogenesis of the mid-hindbrain junction in a dosage- and stage-dependent manner

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 130, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 532-552

  Nakayama, Yukiko ^a   Kikuta, Hiroshi ^a   Kanai, Maiko ^a   Yoshikawa, Kimihito ^a   Kawamura, Akinori ^a   Kobayashi, Kana ^a   Wang, Zhe ^a   Khan, Alam ^a   Kawakami, Koichi ^b,c   Yamasu, Kyo ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain formation; Domain structure; Gbx2; Midbrain hindbrain boundary; Transcriptional regulation; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

GBX TRNASCRIPTION FACTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; MESENCEPHALON; MORPHOGENESIS; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RHOMBENCEPHALIC ISTHMUS; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

BRAIN FORMATION; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; GBX2; MIDBRAIN-HINDBRAIN BOUNDARY; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LUCIFERASES; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RHOMBENCEPHALON; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84887608344     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: 18726356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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