Bone morphogenetic protein 1 regulates dorsal-ventral patterning in early Xenopus embryos by degrading chordin, a BMP4 antagonist

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 75-85

  Wardle, Fiona C ^a   Welch, Jennifer V ^a   Dale, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BMP1; BMP4; Chordin; Dorsalisation; Mesoderm; Noggin; Organiser; Xenopus; Xolloid

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, DOMINANT; GLYCOPROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MESODERM; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MUTATION; PROTEINS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032814654     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00114-8     Document Type: Article

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