Functional analysis of an ascidian homologue of vertebrate Bmp-2/Bmp-4 suggests its role in the inhibition of neural fate specification

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 5149-5159

  Miya, Takahito ^a   Morita, Kiyokazu ^b   Suzuki, Atsushi ^b,c   Ueno, Naoto ^b,d   Satoh, Noriyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

BMP homologue; BMP 2 BMP 4; Embryonic expression; Halocynthia roretzi; Inhibition of neural fate

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EPIDERMIS; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MUSCLE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEUROECTODERM; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UROCHORDATA; XENOPUS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0031468237     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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