Twisted gastrulation can function as a BMP antagonist

Nature

Volumn 410, Issue 6827, 2001, Pages 483-487

  Chang, Chenbei ^a   Holtzman, Douglas A ^b,c   Chau, Samantha ^b   Chickering, Troy ^b   Woolf, Elizabeth A ^b   Holmgren, Lisa M ^b   Bodorova, Jana ^b,d   Gearing, David P ^b,e   Holmes, William E ^b   Brivanlou, Ali H ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^c Microbia PE Inc   (United States)

^d SAIC/NCI FCRDC   (United States)

^e CSL LIMITED   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN TSG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GASTRULA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANURA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035932412     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35068583     Document Type: Article

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