The R-spondin protein family

Genome Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  de Lau, Wim B M ^a   Snel, Berend ^b   Clevers, Hans C ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adult stem cells; Canonical wnt signaling; Furin like repeat; Lgr5; R spondin; Thrombospondin domain

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT CONTAINING G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT CONTAINING G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 4; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT CONTAINING G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 5; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT CONTAINING G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 6; PROTEOGLYCAN; R SPONDIN 1 PROTEIN; R SPONDIN 2 PROTEIN; R SPONDIN 3 PROTEIN; R SPONDIN 4 PROTEIN; R SPONDIN PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; THROMBOSPONDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN; RSPO1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RSPO4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT STEM CELL; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMAN; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NAIL; NONHUMAN; PALMOPLANTAR KERATODERMA; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SKIN CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; XX MALE; ANIMAL; ANONYCHIA; GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NAIL DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER; SKIN TUMOR;

SOLEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

46, XX TESTICULAR DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NAILS, MALFORMED; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; THROMBOSPONDINS; WNT PROTEINS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84858111175     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-3-242     Document Type: Review

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