Drosophila dSmad2 and Atr-I transmit activin/TGFβ signals

Genes to Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 123-134

  Das, Pradeep ^a   Inoue, Hirofumi ^b   Baker, Julie C ^c   Beppu, Hideyuki ^b   Kawabata, Masahiro ^b   Harland, Richard M ^c   Miyazono, Kohei ^b   Padgett, Richard W ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; DROSOPHILA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIGAND BINDING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032958527     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00244.x     Document Type: Article

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