Smad proteins act in combination with synergistic and antagonistic regulators to target Dpp responses to the Drosophila mesoderm

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2354-2370

  Xu, Xiaolei ^a   Yin, Zhizhang ^a   Hudson, John B ^b   Ferguson, Edwin L ^b   Frasch, Manfred ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dpp; Enhancer; Mad; Medea; Mesoderm induction; Signal transduction; Smad; Tinman

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032145411     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.15.2354     Document Type: Article

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