Liebig’s law of the minimum in the TGF-β/SMAD pathway

• Yuchao Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yuchao Li, Zhike Zi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Otto Warburg Laboratory, Berlin, Germany

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• Difan Deng,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department of Experimental Toxicology and ZEBET, Berlin, Germany

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• Chris Tina Höfer,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department of Experimental Toxicology and ZEBET, Berlin, Germany

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• Jihye Kim,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST Institute for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

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• Won Do Heo,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST Institute for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

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• Quanbin Xu,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

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• Xuedong Liu,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

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• Zhike Zi

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yuchao Li, Zhike Zi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zk.zi@siat.ac.cn

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Otto Warburg Laboratory, Berlin, Germany, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department of Experimental Toxicology and ZEBET, Berlin, Germany, Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7601-915X

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