Mutations increasing autoinhibition inactivate tumour suppressors Smad2 and Smad4

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6637, 1997, Pages 82-87

  Hata, Akiko ^a   Lo, Roger S ^a   Wotton, David ^a   Lagna, Giorgio ^a   Massagué, Joan ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0030825516     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/40424     Document Type: Article

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