When pathways collide: Collaboration and connivance among signalling proteins in development

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 404-413

  McNeill, Helen ^a,b   Woodgett, James R ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL POLARITY; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADIPOCYTES; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 77952954695     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2902     Document Type: Review

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