Identification of Smad7, a TGFβ-inducible antagonist of TGF-β signalling

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6651, 1997, Pages 631-635

  Nakao, Atsuhito ^a   Afrakhte, Mozhgan ^b   Morén, Anita ^a   Nakayama, Takuya ^c   Christian, Jan L ^c   Heuchef, Rainer ^a   Itoh, Susumu ^a   Kawabata, Masahiro ^d   Heldin, Nils Erik ^b   Heldin, Carl Henrik ^a   Ten Dijke, Peter ^a  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SMAD7 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SMAD7 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPORTER GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; COS CELLS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEEDBACK; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0030611757     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39369     Document Type: Article

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