Mice develop normally in the absence of Smad4 nucleocytoplasmic shuttling

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 404, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 235-245

  Biondi, Christine A ^a   Das, Debipriya ^b   Howell, Michael ^b   Islam, Ayesha ^a   Bikoff, Elizabeth K ^a   Hill, Caroline S ^a   Robertson, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embryonic; Gene targetting; Nuclear export; Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling; Smad4; Transforming growth factor signal

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL CULTURE; GENES; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); LIGANDS; TISSUE;

EMBRYONIC; GENE TARGETTING; NUCLEAR EXPORT; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC SHUTTLING; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR SIGNAL;

CYTOLOGY;

SMAD4 PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HOMOZYGOSITY; IN VIVO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR EXPORT SIGNAL; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOPLASM; DNA PRIMERS; GENE TARGETING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

MUS;

EID: 34249775192     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20061830     Document Type: Article

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