Connective-tissue growth factor modulates WNT signalling and interacts with the WNT receptor complex

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2137-2147

  Mercurio, Sara ^a,b   Latinkic, Branko ^a,c   Itasaki, Nobue ^a   Krumlauf, Robb ^a,d   Smith, Jim C ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

CCN family; CTGF; LRP6; Wnt signaling; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; INTEGRIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, LDL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 2542631834     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01045     Document Type: Article

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