Organizer-derived Bmp2 is required for the formation of a correct Bmp activity gradient during embryonic development

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Xue, Yu ^a   Zheng, Xiudeng ^b   Huang, Lei ^c   Xu, Pengfei ^a   Ma, Yuanqing ^d   Min, Zheying ^c   Tao, Qinghua ^c   Tao, Yi ^b   Meng, Anming ^a,d  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; CHORDIN; MESSENGER RNA; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; SMAD8 PROTEIN; BMP2B PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; GLYCOPROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; PRIMER DNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SMAD PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; GASTRULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; VENTRODORSAL AXIS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EMBRYOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA PRIMERS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LUCIFERASES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84899784403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4766     Document Type: Article

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