Multiple Signaling Pathways Coordinate to Induce a Threshold Response in a Chordate Embryo

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Ohta, Naoyuki ^a   Satou, Yutaka ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 16; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 9; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 1; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN ADMP; PROTEIN EPHRINA; PROTEIN NODAL; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REPRESSION; EPIDERMIS CELL; EVOKED RESPONSE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHORDATA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPHRINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84887267588     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003818     Document Type: Article

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