The DSmurf Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Restricts BMP Signaling Spatially and Temporally during Drosophila Embryogenesis

Developmental Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 567-578

  Podos, Steven D ^a   Hanson, Kirsten K ^a   Wang, Yu Chiun ^b   Ferguson, Edwin L ^a,b  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VERTEBRATA;

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; LACK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; LIGASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTESTINES; LIGASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 0035489160     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(01)00057-0     Document Type: Article

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