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Disease relevance of Xenopus

  • In the human breast cancer cell line MCF-7, we observe estrogen induction of the stable transfected Xenopus vitellogenin A2 gene [1].
  • We were unable to detect evidence of sulfate transport following the expression of pendrin in Xenopus laevis oocytes by microinjection of PDS cRNA or in Sf9 cells following infection with PDS-recombinant baculovirus [2].
  • Bulged bases in RNA helices are potentially significant in RNA folding and in providing sites for specific protein-RNA interactions, as illustrated by TFIIIA of Xenopus and the coat protein of phage R17 [3].
  • The cloned cDNAs encoding the four subunits of the Torpedo californica acetylcholine receptor, each carried by a simian virus 40 vector, direct the synthesis of the functional receptor in a combined expression system consisting of COS monkey cells and Xenopus oocytes [4].
  • During the metamorphosis of the Xenopus laevis retina, thyroid hormone (TH) preferentially induces ventral ciliary marginal zone (CMZ) cells to both increase their proliferation and give rise to ipsilaterally projecting ganglion cells [5].
 

Psychiatry related information on Xenopus

 

High impact information on Xenopus

 

Chemical compound and disease context of Xenopus

 

Biological context of Xenopus

 

Anatomical context of Xenopus

 

Associations of Xenopus with chemical compounds

 

Gene context of Xenopus

  • Dorsoventral patterning in Xenopus: inhibition of ventral signals by direct binding of chordin to BMP-4 [32].
  • We have cloned a Xenopus homolog of the largest ORC polypeptide (XORC1) [33].
  • The amino terminus of DmORC1 contained a strong HP1-binding site, mirroring an interaction found independently in Xenopus by a yeast two-hybrid screen [34].
  • Injection of wildtype and mutated FZD4 into Xenopus laevis embryos revealed that wildtype, but not mutant, frizzled-4 activated calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CAMKII) and protein kinase C (PKC), components of the Wnt/Ca(2+) signaling pathway [35].
  • Using Xenopus laevis egg extracts, we have identified and purified a 170-kD protein, focus-forming activity 1 (FFA-1), which is required for the formation of replication foci [36].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Xenopus

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