A SMAD ubiquitin ligase targets the BMP pathway and affects embryonic pattern formation

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6745, 1999, Pages 687-693

  Zhu, Haitao ^a   Kavsak, Peter ^b,c,d   Abdollah, Shirin ^b,d   Wrana, Jeffrey L ^b,c,d   Thomsen, Gerald H ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HUMANS; LIGASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; UBIQUITINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0033549789     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23293     Document Type: Article

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