Araf kinase antagonizes Nodal-Smad2 activity in mesendoderm development by directly phosphorylating the Smad2 linker region

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Liu, Xingfeng ^a   Xiong, Cong ^a   Jia, Shunji ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Chen, Ye Guang ^a   Wang, Qiang ^b   Meng, Anming ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAF PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CELL ORGANELLE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOMEOSTASIS; INHIBITION; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORUS; SIGNALING;

ARTICLE; ENDODERM; MESENDODERM; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MESODERM; NODAL PROTEIN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; SMAD2 PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84877752842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2762     Document Type: Article

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