Region-specific regulation of the actin multi-gene family in early amphibian embryos
- 4 December 1984
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences
- Vol. 307 (1132) , 337-342
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1984.0136
Abstract
The actin multi-gene family shows both spatial and tem poral regulation during early embryogenesis in the am phibian Xenopus laevis . Both muscle-specific and ubiquitous cytoskeletal actin genes are activated at the end of gastrulation; transcription of the α-cardiac and α-skeletal actin genes is restricted to the somitic mesoderm and its muscle-forming derivatives providing a convenient molecular marker for this early embryonic tissue.Keywords
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