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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5212
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-6-16
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins are instrumental in determining cell type during development. A bHLH protein, termed NeuroD, for neurogenic differentiation, has now been identified as a differentiation factor for neurogenesis because (i) it is expressed transiently in a subset of neurons in the central and peripheral nervous systems at the time of their terminal differentiation into mature neurons and (ii) ectopic expression of neuroD in Xenopus embryos causes premature differentiation of neuronal precursors. Furthermore, neuroD can convert presumptive epidermal cells into neurons and also act as a neuronal determination gene. However, unlike another previously identified proneural gene (XASH-3), neuroD seems competent to bypass the normal inhibitory influences that usually prevent neurogenesis in ventral and lateral ectoderm and is capable of converting most of the embryonic ectoderm into neurons. The data suggest that neuroD may participate in the terminal differentiation step during vertebrate neuronal development.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0036-8075
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
12
pubmed:volume
268
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
836-44
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-3-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Cell Adhesion Molecules, Neuronal, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Ectoderm, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Helix-Loop-Helix Motifs, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Nervous System, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Neural Crest, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:7754368-Xenopus
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Conversion of Xenopus ectoderm into neurons by NeuroD, a basic helix-loop-helix protein.
pubmed:affiliation
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98104, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't