Cell fate specification and competence by Coco, a maternal BMP, TGFβ and Wnt inhibitor

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1381-1389

  Bell, Esther ^a   Muñoz Sanjuán, Ignacio ^a   Altmann, Curtis R ^a   Vonica, Alin ^a   Brivanlou, Ali H ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BMP; Coco; Gastrula; Nodal; Wnt; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN INHIBITOR; PROTEIN COCO; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL FATE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC SCREENING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZYGOTE;

ACTIVINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CERBERUS; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037386102     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00344     Document Type: Review

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