The Drosophila tumor suppressor gene warts encodes a homolog of human myotonic dystrophy kinase and is required for the control of cell shape and proliferation

Genes and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 534-546

  Justice, Robin W ^a   Zilian, Olav ^b   Woods, Daniel F ^a   Noll, Markus ^b   Bryant, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drosophila; epithelia; myotonic dystrophy; protein kinases; Tumor suppressor genes

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SHAPE; CHROMOSOME 3; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IMAGINAL DISC; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NEUROFIBROMA; NONHUMAN; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PILOMATRIXOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALIA; NEUROSPORA;

EID: 0028902594     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.9.5.534     Document Type: Article

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