A molecular basis for Smad specificity
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Giorgio Lagna; Ali Hemmati-Brivanlou
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) and activins are members of the TGFโค superfamily of growth factors, a crucial group of regulators of induction and patterning of embryonic germ layers in metazoa. In early Xenopus embryos, activin, Vg1, and nodal are potent inducers of dorsal mesoderm, whereas BMPs