Xenopus Smad8 acts downstream of BMP-4 to modulate its activity during vertebrate embryonic patterning

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 857-867

  Nakayama, Takuya ^a   Snyder, Mark A ^a   Grewal, Savraj S ^a   Tsuneizumi, Kazuhide ^b   Tabata, Tetsuya ^b   Christian, Jan L ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

BMP; Neuralization; Smad8; Spina bifida; TGF

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; PHOSPHOSERINE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EXPLANT; GASTRULATION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ACTIVINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INHIBINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD8 PROTEIN; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031939483     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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