Secreted Spitz triggers the DER signaling pathway and is a limiting component in embryonic ventral ectoderm determination

Genes and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 1518-1529

  Schweitzer, Ronen ^a   Shaharabany, Miriam ^a   Seger, Rony ^a   Shilo, Ben Zion ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

DER; Drosophila; EGF receptor; receptor tyrosine kinase; signal transduction; spitz group

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPISTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029015431     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.9.12.1518     Document Type: Article

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