• DOI:10.1038/371796a0
Corpus ID: 4333028

Krox-20 controls myelination in the peripheral nervous system

@article{Topilko1994Krox20CM,
  title={Krox-20 controls myelination in the peripheral nervous system},
  author={Piotr Topilko and Sylvie Schneider-Maunoury and Giovanni Levi and Anne Baron-Van Evercooren and Amina Ben Younes Chennoufi and Tania Seitanidou and Charles Babinet and Patrick Charnay},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1994},
  volume={371},
  pages={796-799}
}

Piotr Topilko, Sylvie Schneider-Maunoury, +5 authors Patrick Charnay

Published 1994

Medicine, Biology

Nature

THE molecular mechanisms controlling the process of myelination by Schwann cells remain elusive, despite recent progress in the identification and characterization of genes encoding myelin components (reviewed in ref. 1). We have created a null allele in the mouse Krox-20 gene, which encodes a zinc-finger transcription factor2,3, by in-frame insertion of the Escherichia coli lacZ gene, and have shown that hindbrain segmentation is affected in Krox-20−/− embryos4. We demonstrate here that Krox… CONTINUE READING

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