Decoding the Hedgehog signal in animal development

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1249-1265

  Jia, J ^a   Jiang, J ^b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ci Gli transcription factor; Development; Hedgehog signaling; Kinase; Patched; Pattern formation; Smoothened; Wnt

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; F BOX PROTEIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MORPHOGEN; PROTEIN PATCHED; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEOHEPARAN SULFATE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; WNT PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FUNCTION; DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33646861115     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-005-5519-z     Document Type: Review

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