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Nature Cell Biology 8, 305–307 (1 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/ncb0406-305

Chordin cleavage is sizzling

David Kimelman & Daniel P. Szeto

In Xenopus and zebrafish, Bmp signalling has a critical function in patterning cell fates along the dorsal–ventral axis (reviewed in refs 1 and 2). Bmps signal through members of the type I and type II TGF-β serine/threonine receptor kinase family.