Tbx2 Terminates Shh/Fgf Signaling in the Developing Mouse Limb Bud by Direct Repression of Gremlin1

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Farin, Henner F ^a,c   Lüdtke, Timo H W ^a   Schmidt, Martina K ^a   Placzko, Susann ^a   Schuster Gossler, Karin ^a   Petry, Marianne ^a   Christoffels, Vincent M ^b   Kispert, Andreas ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 9; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM; FGF17 GENE; FGF4 GENE; FGF9 GENE; GENE; GENE INDUCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GREMLIN1 GENE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HINDLIMB; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LIMB MALFORMATION; MESENCHYME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TBX2 GENE;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; EPITHELIUM; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIMB BUDS; MESODERM; MICE; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84876834888     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003467     Document Type: Article

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