Tissue-specific requirements for the proprotein convertase Furin/SPC1 during embryonic turning and heart looping

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 245-254

  Constam, Daniel B ^a   Robertson, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial rotation; Convertase; Endoderm; Proprotein processing; TGF ; Ventral morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

FURIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; STEM CELL; VASCULARIZATION; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; ENDODERM; FURIN; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS; SUBTILISINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VISCERA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033952923     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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