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SUBMITTER: Batut J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1257693 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Batut Julie J Vandel Laurence L Leclerc Catherine C Daguzan Christiane C Moreau Marc M Néant Isabelle I
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20051007 42
We have previously shown that an increase in intracellular Ca2+ is both necessary and sufficient to commit ectoderm to a neural fate in Xenopus embryos. However, the relationship between this Ca2+ increase and the expression of early neural genes has yet to be defined. Using a subtractive cDNA library between untreated and caffeine-treated animal caps, i.e., control ectoderm and ectoderm induced toward a neural fate by a release of Ca2+, we have isolated the arginine N-methyltransferase, xPRMT1b ...[more]