A new secreted protein that binds to Wnt proteins and inhibits their activites

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6726, 1999, Pages 431-436

  Hsieh, Jen Chih ^a   Kodjabachian, Laurent ^b   Rebbert, Martha L ^b   Rattner, Amir ^a   Smallwood, Philip M ^a   Samos, Cynthia Harryman ^c   Nusse, Roel ^c   Dawid, Igor B ^b   Nathans, Jeremy ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033118492     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/18899     Document Type: Article

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