Article
Ft1, a novel gene related to ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes, is deleted in the Fused toes mouse mutation.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Dec 1997
Lesche R, Peetz A, van der Hoeven F, Rüther U
Abstract excerpt
The dominant mouse mutation Fused toes is characterized by partial syndactyly of the limbs and thymic hyperplasia. Both morphological abnormalities were shown to be related to impaired regulation of programmed cell death. Ft/Ft embryos die in midgestation showing severe malformations of fore- and...
Topics
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Apoptosis
- Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Brain
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA, Complementary
- Dexamethasone
- Embryonic and Fetal Development
- Fetal Heart
- Gene Expression
- Genes
- Genes, Dominant
- Genes, Overlapping
- Humans