Article
Heterotaxin: a TGF-β signaling inhibitor identified in a multi-phenotype profiling screen in Xenopus embryos.
Chemistry & biology - 25 Feb 2011
Dush Michael K, McIver Andrew L, Parr Meredith A, Young Douglas D, Fisher Julie, Newman Donna R, Sannes Philip L, Hauck Marlene L, Deiters Alexander, Nascone-Yoder Nanette
Abstract excerpt
Disruptions of anatomical left-right asymmetry result in life-threatening heterotaxic birth defects in vital organs. We performed a small molecule screen for left-right asymmetry phenotypes in Xenopus embryos and discovered a pyridine analog, heterotaxin, which disrupts both cardiovascular and digestive organ laterality and inhibits TGF-β-dependent left-right asymmetric gene expression. Heterotaxin analogs also...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
