A conserved signaling pathway: The Drosophila toll-dorsal pathway

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 1996, Pages 393-416

  Belvin, Marcia P ^a   Anderson, Kathryn V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal; dorsal ventral patterning; I B; NF B; Toll

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIFE CYCLE; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; CACTACEAE; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029730738     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.12.1.393     Document Type: Review

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