A transcription factor network coordinates attraction, repulsion, and adhesion combinatorially to control motor axon pathway selection

Neuron

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1297-1311

  Zarin, Aref Arzan ^a   Asadzadeh, Jamshid ^a   Hokamp, Karsten ^a   McCartney, Daniel ^a   Yang, Long ^b   Bashaw, Greg J ^b   Labrador, Juan Pablo ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; FASCICLIN 2; GLYCOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROGLIAN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN BEATEN PATH; PROTEIN UNC5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GRAIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZFH1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EVEN SKIPPED; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; ATTRACTION; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL MOTOR NEURON; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; INTERNEURON; MOTONEURON; MUTANT; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPULSION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL CELL; BEAT IA GENE; CELL ADHESION; CELL ATTRACTIVENESS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; DORSAL MOTORNEURON; EVE GENE; FAS2 GENE; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GRAIN GENE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOSAICISM; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NRG GENE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNC5 GENE; ZFH1 GENE; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTERNEURONS; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE NET; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84896318710     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.01.038     Document Type: Article

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