A mouse homologue of FAST-1 transduces TGFβ superfamily signals and is expressed during early embryogenesis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 17-27

  Weisberg, Ellen ^a   Winnier, Glenn E ^b   Chen, Xin ^a   Farnsworth, Charles L ^a   Hogan, Brigid L H ^b   Whitman, Malcolm ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; TGF superfamily; Transcription factor FAST 1; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0032414597     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00160-9     Document Type: Article

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