Echinococcus multilocularis: Molecular characterization of EmSmadE, a novel BR-Smad involved in TGF-β and BMP signaling

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 85-94

  Epping, Kerstin ^a   Brehm, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

BMP; Cestode; Development; Echinococcus; Smad; TGF

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 1; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EMSMADA PROTEIN; EMSMADB PROTEIN; EMSMADD PROTEIN; EMSMADE PROTEIN; HETERODIMER; HOMODIMER; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; EMSMADE GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL STAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; LARVA; MACACA MULATTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS, RECEPTOR-REGULATED; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; METAZOA;

EID: 80052416877     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2011.07.013     Document Type: Article

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