Tumor necrosis factor-receptor-associated factor-4 is a positive regulator of transforming growth factor-β signaling that affects neural crest formation

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3436-3450

  Kalkan, Tuzer ^a,b   Iwasaki, Yasuno ^a   Chong, Yon Park ^a,c   Thomsen, Gerald H ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NOGGIN; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN NODAL; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR 4; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GASTRULA; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NEURAL CREST; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL PLATE; NEURAL TUBE; NODAL PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TNF RECEPTOR-ASSOCIATED FACTOR 4; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 67749120312     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E08-03-0325     Document Type: Article

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