Functional and biochemical interactions of Wnts with FrzA, a secreted Wnt antagonist

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 4767-4776

  Xu, Qihong ^a   D'Amore, Patricia A ^a   Sokol, Sergei Y ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Activin; Dishevelled; Dorsoventral axis; Frizzled; Mesoderm; Morphogenetic movement; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EARLY RESPONSE GENE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE REPRESSION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CATTLE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WNT PROTEINS; WNT2 PROTEIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

EID: 0032413410     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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