Smad4 and FAST-1 in the assembly of activin-responsive factor

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6646, 1997, Pages 85-89

  Chen, Xin ^a   Weisberg, Ellen ^a   Fridmacher, Valerie ^a   Watanabe, Minoru ^a   Naco, Grace ^a   Whitman, Malcolm ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DELETION MUTANT; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPITOPES; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; INHIBINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRECIPITIN TESTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA;

EID: 0030961168     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38008     Document Type: Article

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