Xenopus Smad4β is the co-Smad component of developmentally regulated transcription factor complexes responsible for induction of early mesodermal genes

Developmental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 354-369

  Howell, Michael ^a,b,d   Itoh, Fumiko ^c   Pierreux, Christophe E ^d   Valgeirsdottir, Sigridur ^c   Itoh, Susumu ^c   Ten Dijke, Peter ^c   Hill, Caroline S ^a,b,d  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activin; Mesoderm induction; Smad; TGF ; Transcriptional regulation; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ACTIVIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXH1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; FOXH1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; FOXH1 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; INHIBIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SMAD PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS PROTEIN; XSMAD4A PROTEIN, XENOPUS; XSMAD4B PROTEIN, XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESODERM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; XENOPUS;

ACTIVINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INHIBINS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0033568923     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9430     Document Type: Article

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