Medea is a Drosophila Smad4 homolog that is differentially required to potentiate DPP responses

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1433-1445

  Wisotzkey, Robert G ^a   Mehra, Arun ^b   Sutherland, David J ^a   Dobens, Leonard L ^a   Liu, Xiaoqing ^a   Dohrmann, Cord ^a   Attisano, Liliana ^b   Raftery, Laurel A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dorsoventral patterning; DPP; Medea; Midgut patterning; Smad protein; Wing patterning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MAMMAL; MUTATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031812037     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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