The novel Cer-like protein Caronte mediates the establishment of embryonic left-right asymmetry

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6750, 1999, Pages 243-251

  Esteban, Concepción Rodríguez ^a   Capdevila, Javier ^a   Economides, Aris N ^b   Pascual, Jaime ^c   Ortiz, Ángel ^c   Izpisúa Belmonte, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MESODERM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CHICK EMBRYO; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CERBERUS; ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 0033575879     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/45738     Document Type: Article

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