HEB and E2A function as SMAD/FOXH1 cofactors

Genes and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1654-1661

  Yoon, Se Jin ^a   Wills, Andrea E ^a   Chuong, Edward ^a   Gupta, Rakhi ^a   Baker, Julie C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chip seq; E2a; Foxh1; Heb; Nodal; Smad2 3

Indexed keywords

SMAD PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXH1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HEB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GASTRULATION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDODERM; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; LEFT-RIGHT DETERMINATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS, RECEPTOR-REGULATED; XENOPUS;

XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 80051520491     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.16800511     Document Type: Article

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