Sonic hedgehog: Making the gradient

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-16

  Bumcrot, David A ^a   McMahon, Andrew P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; ZINC;

CHEMISTRY; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HYDROLYSIS; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; ZINC;

ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030043315     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(96)90077-0     Document Type: Short Survey

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