Characterization of zebrafish smad1, smad2 and smad5: The amino-terminus of Smad1 and Smad5 is required for specific function in the embryo

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 73-88

  Müller, Ferenc ^a   Blader, Patrick ^a   Rastegar, Sepand ^b   Fischer, Nadine ^a   Knöchel, Walter ^b   Strähle, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dorsoventral patterning; Smad; Zebrafish, Xenopus, Xvent 2B

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND VARIABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344549451     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00173-2     Document Type: Article

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