Smads are the central component in transforming growth factor-β signaling

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-52

  Padgett, Richard W ^a   Cho, Seo Hee ^a   Evangelista, Carlos ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Drosophila; Signal transduction; Smad proteins; TGF

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0031958322     PISSN: 01637258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-7258(97)00166-6     Document Type: Review

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