Genome-wide transcriptomics analysis identifies sox7 and sox18 as specifically regulated by gata4 in cardiomyogenesis [PDF]
This work was supported by British Heart Foundation (BHF Project Grant no PG/13/23/30080 to B.A.A and S.H.), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/M001695/1 to S.H.) and the University of Aberdeen (for A.T.L).
Afouda, Boni A +3 more
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Mitotic spindle scaling during Xenopus development by kif2a and importin α. [PDF]
Early development of many animals is characterized by rapid cleavages that dramatically decrease cell size, but how the mitotic spindle adapts to changing cell dimensions is not understood.
HEALD, Rebecca, Wilbur, Jeremy
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Notch activates Wnt-4 signalling to control medio-lateral patterning of the pronephros [PDF]
Previous studies have highlighted a role for the Notch signalling pathway during pronephrogenesis in the amphibian Xenopus laevis, and in nephron development in the mammalian metanephros, yet a mechanism for this function remains elusive.
Jones, E. A., Naylor, Richard William
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Synuclein Analysis in Adult Xenopus laevis
The α-, β- and γ-synucleins are small soluble proteins expressed in the nervous system of mammals and evolutionary conserved in vertebrates. After being discovered in the cartilaginous fish Torpedo californica, synucleins have been sequenced in all vertebrates, showing differences in the number of genes and splicing isoforms in different taxa. Although
Maria Carmela Bonaccorsi di Patti +5 more
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Characterization of Xenopus tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-2: a role in regulating matrix metalloproteinase activity during development. [PDF]
Frog metamorphosis is totally dependent on thyroid hormone (T3) and mimics the postembryonic period around birth in mammals. It is an excellent model to study the molecular basis of postembryonic development in vertebrate.
Liezhen Fu +3 more
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Regional requirements for Dishevelled signaling during Xenopus gastrulation: separable effects on blastopore closure, mesendoderm internalization and archenteron formation [PDF]
During amphibian gastrulation, the embryo is transformed by the combined actions of several different tissues. Paradoxically, many of these morphogenetic processes can occur autonomously in tissue explants, yet the tissues in intact embryos must interact
Ewald, Andrew J. +4 more
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Lipids of Xenopus laevis Spermatozoa [PDF]
Xenopus laevis sperm lipid composition has been studied. The cholesterol content of Xenopus spermatozoa is 194 μ/mg DNA. Their content of glycolipids and phospholipids (measured as inorganic phosphorus) is respectively 40 and 27 μ/mg DNA. The phospholipid pattern is quite homogeneous and all the principal molecular species are present.
BERNARDINI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA +4 more
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RMND5 from Xenopus laevis is an E3 ubiquitin-ligase and functions in early embryonic forebrain development. [PDF]
In Saccharomyces cerevisiae the Gid-complex functions as an ubiquitin-ligase complex that regulates the metabolic switch between glycolysis and gluconeogenesis.
Thorsten Pfirrmann +5 more
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Transcriptionally inactive oocyte-type 5S RNA genes of Xenopus laevis are complexed with TFIIIA in vitro [PDF]
An extract from whole oocytes of Xenopus laevis was shown to transcribe somatic-type 5S RNA genes approximately 100-fold more efficiently than oocyte-type 5S RNA genes.
Eversole-Cire, Pamela +4 more
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Xenopus Hybrids Provide Insight Into Cell and Organism Size Control
Determining how size is controlled is a fundamental question in biology that is poorly understood at the organismal, cellular, and subcellular levels. The Xenopus species, X. laevis and X. tropicalis differ in size at all three of these levels.
Romain Gibeaux +4 more
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