Left-right asymmetric expression of lefty2 and nodal is induced by a signaling pathway that includes the transcription factor FAST2

Molecular Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-47

  Saijoh, Yukio ^a   Adachi, Hitoshi ^a   Sakuma, Rui ^a   Yeo, Chang Yeol ^c   Yashiro, Kenta ^a   Watanabe, Minoru ^c   Hashiguchi, Hiromi ^a   Mochida, Kyoko ^a   Ohishi, Sachiko ^a   Kawabata, Masahiro ^b   Miyazono, Kohei ^b   Whitman, Malcolm ^c   Hamada, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033969935     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80401-3     Document Type: Article

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