Sp6 and Sp8 Transcription Factors Control AER Formation and Dorsal-Ventral Patterning in Limb Development

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Haro, Endika ^a   Delgado, Irene ^a,h   Junco, Marisa ^a   Yamada, Yoshihiko ^b   Mansouri, Ahmed ^c,d,e   Oberg, Kerby C ^f   Ros, Marian A ^a,g  

^a University of Cantabria   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^h CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT7A PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; SP6 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SP8 PROTEIN, MOUSE; WNT7A PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICAL ECTODERMAL RIDGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GENE DOSAGE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIMB; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; MORPHOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EXTREMITIES; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84925548629     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004468     Document Type: Article

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