The nodal target gene Xmenf is a component of an FGF-independent pathway of ventral mesoderm induction in Xenopus

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 45-56

  Kumano, Gaku ^a   Smith, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibroblast growth factor; Nodal; Ventral mesoderm; Xenopus; Xmenf

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN XMENF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIVIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NDR2 PROTEIN, VERTEBRATE; NDR2 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR; RNA; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS PROTEIN; XMENF PROTEIN, XENOPUS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GASTRULATION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINEAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; DOSE RESPONSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TIME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA;

ACTIVINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BODY PATTERNING; CELL LINEAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE LIBRARY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD2 PROTEIN; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0036803297     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(02)00186-7     Document Type: Article

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