NDR kinases are essential for somitogenesis and cardiac looping during mouse embryonic development

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Schmitz Rohmer, Debora ^a   Probst, Simone ^b,f   Yang, Zhong Zhou ^c   Laurent, Frédéric ^b   Stadler, Michael B ^a,d   Zuniga, Aimée ^b   Zeller, Rolf ^b   Hynx, Debby ^a   Hemmings, Brian A ^a   Hergovich, Alexander ^e  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NDR1 KINASE; NDR2 KINASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NDR1 PROTEIN KINASE, MOUSE; NDR2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC LOOPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GESTATION PERIOD; HEART ARREST; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART TUBE OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MOUSE; NDR1 GENE; NDR2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EDEMA; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; SOMITOGENESIS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; ORGANOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ORGANOGENESIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84942939384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136566     Document Type: Article

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