The Scientist Staff | Jan 3, 1999 | 3 min read
L.B. Zimmerman, J.M. De Jesús-Escobar, R.M. Harland, "The Spemann organizer signal noggin binds and inactivates bone morphogenetic protein 4," Cell, 86:599-606, 1996. (Cited in more than 180 papers since publication) Comments by Richard M. Harland, Choh Hao Li professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, University of California, Berkeley Richard M. Harland Researchers had long suspected that the protein noggin's interaction with bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) dictated devel