Smurf1 regulates neural patterning and folding in Xenopus embryos by antagonizing the BMP/Smad1 pathway

Developmental Biology

Volumn 299, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 398-410

  Alexandrova, Evguenia M ^a   Thomsen, Gerald H ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BMP; Embryo; Neural folding; Neural patterning; Neural tube; Signal transduction; Smad1; Smurf1; Ubiquitin ligase; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE 2; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SMAD UBIQUITYLATION REGULATORY FACTOR 1; SMAD1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; GASTRULA; MESODERM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33750286555     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.08.009     Document Type: Article

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