The C-terminal domain of Mad-like signal transducers is sufficient for biological activity in the Xenopus embryo and transcriptional activation

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 127-140

  Meersseman, Geert ^a   Verschueren, Kristin ^b   Nelles, Luc ^b   Blumenstock, Claudia ^c   Kraft, Harry ^b   Wuytens, Gunther ^b   Remacle, Jacques ^b   Kozak, Christine A ^d   Tylzanowski, Przemko ^b   Niehrs, Christof ^c   Huylebroeck, Danny ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

mothers against dpp; serine threonine kinase receptors; signal transduction; transcription factors; transforming growth factor

Indexed keywords

KINASE RECEPTOR; MAD PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SMAD PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031044107     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(96)00629-6     Document Type: Article

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